On NEWS FROM ABROAD.-UNITED STATES. The Secretary of the Treasury Department of the United States, laid his report before Congress contains its most important items: on the 15th January. The following abstract RECEIPTS. For fiscal year ending June 30, 1853..$49,728,386 Total...... EXPENDITURES. .$60,640,031 For fiscal year ending June 30, 1852..$49,007,896 .$4,000,297 1,961,460 Redemption of principal of Loans.. 300 287,596 60,000 3,180,000 Debt of Cities in Columbia.... The Receipts for fiscal year ending June 30th, 1854, are estimated at $51,000,000, which added to the estimated balance in Treasury on 1st July, 1853, will make the total means $56,203,753. Mercer Jones, Esq., has received a pension of £400 sterling per annum, on his retirement from the Commissionership of the Canada Company. He had been twenty-four years in the service of the Company, and a highly popular and efficient officer.Mr. Good, of Toronto, has successfully inanufactured several locomotive machines. It is gratifying to witness our Province becoming independent of imported machinery.-Reports have been current during the last few months, of gold having been discovered at London, and other! towns and villages of Upper Canada. They have all proved to be unfounded. In Streetsville, a medical man named Bennett, threw that locality into a ferment some weeks ago, by announcing! that he had found a piece of the pure metal. inquiry it turned out that the nugget was an earringStock in the Main Trunk Railway, is taken up in England to the extent of eight millions. The Rothschild's have one million.- - The Cherokee, a beautiful barque, built at Kingston, sailed from Toronto for Liverpool last month. She is 125 feet keel, 26 feet beam, 11 feet in the hold, about the burden of 370 tons, and when fully loaded will draw about nine feet of water.- A public dinner was given at Toronto to Mr. Gaskin, the owner and master of the vessel.-Mr. W. H. Boulton, one of the representatives of Toronto, having been unseated on the ground of want of qualification, the Hon. H. Sherwood, was elected in his room. He had a majority of 410 votes over the other candidate, Mr. Ogle R. Gowan.- -Dr. Rae left Lachine last month for the North West, to complete the survey of the Arctic regions.S. E. Mackechnie, Esq., Mayor of Cobourg, died there on the 5th of May. Mr. M. was well known throughout Canada as a cloth manufacturer, and his loss will be severely felt in Cobourg and the surrounding country. It is said that his anxiety, as to buildings and machinery requisite for the manufacture in which he was engaged, wore down the constitution of this gentleman, and led to his death.-Robberies, some of them of a serious nature have recently been very common in Hamiltong U. C. Two specimens of gold, worth $7, were last month found in a quartz rock at Sherbrooke. -The Rev. H. Esson, lately a Professor in Knox's College, Toronto, died there on the 13th ult. The Toronto and Guelph Railway Company is about to be dissolved, and the concern The feeling of our country ought to be eminently amalgamated into the Grand Trunk.- -On the peaceful, and with the neighbouring states of our 30th of April, the steamer Ocean Wave, bound Continent we should cultivate kindly and paternal from Hamilton to Ogdensburgh, was burned when relations: with the politics of Europe, we can have six miles west of the "Ducks," and twenty-five no immediate or direct concern, except so far as miles from Kingston. Out of twenty-three pas- the vast interests of commerce, which are comsengers only five were saved, so far as known. mon to all mankind, are at stake." It is also deThe crew consisted of thirty persons, of whom clared that "the rights, security and repose of the about one-half were lost. The Genova, the coufederacy reject the idea of interference or colopioneer vessel of the Canadian line of steam-nization on this side of the ocean by any foreign ships, arrived at Quebec on the 10th ult. She made the passage from Liverpool in a little less than twenty days.On the 16th ult., the first passenger and freight train of the Northern Railroad started from Toronto for Machell's, a distance of about thirty miles.St. John, N.B., papers state that the fisheries on the British North American coast are to be guarded this year from United States trespassers as jealously and more efficiently than ever. There has been a proposal made to Congress by a company of New York gentlemen to build a trans-continental Railroad from New York to San Francisco, the work to be completed in three years, without aid from the U. S. Government, save a loan of thirty millions of dollars, to be guaranteed by the work itself, and no territorial cessions beyond the mere right of way. The capital stock of the enterprise is placed at one hundred million of dollars. A message has been addressed by the President to Congress with regard to the removal of the Seminole tribe of Indians to the Indian territory. It was also said that General Hopkins was with a small force cruelly murdered, but by later accounts we find no confirmation of this statement. The following extracts from General Pierce's inaugural address will be found worthy of note, as indicating the one sided spirit of the Government. power, beyond present jurisdiction, as utterly inadmissable," a curious proof of non-interference follows this. The French Minister at Washington complained that some expressions in one of Mr. Rives despatches implied a censure on the revolution, and was thus an unwarrantable interference with the domestic affairs of France. Mr. Webster's explanation was, that it never was extended, even by imputation, to call in question the manner in which the rights of the French authorities had been obtained, and that Mr. Rives would be justify the act, if one of the prisoners should die directed to make such a statement to the French in prison, the public opinion of all Europe will Government. Mr. Rives in explanation indicated the course he had pursued in declining to recognise the new Government in France, until instructed how to act by advices from home, and he proceeded to show that his despatches to his own Government was a matter not supposed to be within the cognizance, and certainly not within the jurisdiction of the French Government or its Embassadors, and that any complaint of the language or sentiments contained was without warrant. He quoted Mr. Webster's letter to the Chevalier Hulseman, to prove that the American Government had distinctly repelled the claim of foreign powers thus to supervise communications from its agents abroad to their own government. Upon these grounds Mr. Rives declined to present any apology or explanation to the French Government for the language used in his despatches. The Cabinet is thus constituted: Secretary of State, Mr. S. Marcy. Treasury, Jas. Guthrie. Interior, R. McClelland. War, Jefferson Davis. Navy, Jas. C. Dobbin. Postmaster General, Jas. Campbell. Attorney General, Caleb Cushing. MEXICO. After numerous revolutions, affairs seem to be settled for the present. Santa Anna has been again chosen President of the Republic. In South America revolutions seem to have no end; at Buenos Ayres, especially, political affairs long have been and continue to be in a ferment. EUROPE. GREAT BRITAIN. -The hold the Grand Duke guilty of having put a man "Inter We believe we may state that the Queen's Government has intimated to the authorities of the East India-house that they will be compelled to withdraw three Queen's Regiments from the Company's service, because Malta will require, in future, two additional Regiments to augment the garrison there; the remaining Regiment being needed for a similar purpose at Corfu. Consequently the Company intend to raise three additional European Regiments to meet the deficiency. These are not the only signs of increased activity in the War Department. The Militia are being actively trained: and they are far more efficient than was anticipated. A good camp is being formed near Windsor; and it is intended, as was intimated by the Secretary-at-War in moving the Army estimates, to exercise the Regiments in brigades, so that the operations may be on a larger scale than is practicable in an ordinary review. The new Aberdeen Ministry appears to give the utmost satisfaction to the people of the parent isle. The commercial system of Sir R. Peel is to be continued as the one most calculated for the improvement of the condition of the manufactu ring and agricultural classes.-The National Education question is to receive the earliest attention of the Government.-Lord Aberdeen has pronounced his administration to be of a Liberal-Con- There is no very important news either from servative character; "he, Lord Aberdeen, would Burmah or the Cape, in both places affairs have never have coalesced with Lord John Russell, been slowly progressing to what promises a favorhad he not regarded him as a Liberal-Conserva-able settlement. From China the news is more tive," and Lord John Russell on his part "would never have taken office had he not believed Lord Aberdeen to be conservative liberal."—The enlargement of the Elective Franchise is advocated; as also is parliamentary reform.The extension of education, of civil and religious liberty, of commercial freedom, and of political rights, is looked upon as the true means of preserving those institutions under which the Englishman enjoys so much happiness.-The elections have generally resulted in favor of the former incumbents.Great discussions have taken place on the subject of the Madiai, and Lord John Russell's instructions to Sir Henry Bulwer directed him to remonstrate, in the most earnest manner, with the Grand Duke of Tuscany, and to represent to him, that notwithstanding the various pleas by which an attempt is made to important. A rebellion of a serious nature has broken out, very little is as yet known of the leader in this movement, of his character, principles or war-cry. From his influence, however, over his followers, by whom he is already designated king, we may conjectere him a man more than ordinarily capable, a man possessing persuasive address, a strong will, and a military knowledge and aptitude by no means despicable. He has probably more than the average share of Chinese courage. His influence with his followers, and his successes against his enemies, prove him something both of the politician and warrior. His war-cry is probably some grievance galling to several large classes of the people, and may be thought to have elicited the Imperial pledges promulgated as a sort of counter demonstration. His present principle is one not likely to find FRANCE. great opposition amongst the people, for it is said that he remits taxation of the lower orders entireM. Kisseleff, the Ambassador to France from ly. In Europe we can each of us ascertain what the Czar, presented his credentials to the Emeffect would be the result of such a principle.-peror, addressed Mon Ami, instead of the more His banner would soon be surrounded by more courteous and usual formula between Sovereigns, than Kossuth can rally, with all his oratory. In Mon Frère. The French Minister was indignant, China possibly the same result may not follow, but, notwithstanding the slight, the Russian envoy because the taxes (as far as the imperfect know- received an audience on the following morning, ledge relative to China would instruct us) have All the European governments have now sancalways been levied upon land, and thus no direct tioned the French Empire.--The marriage of tax ever fell upon the poor, so that, though such the Emperor with Mdile. de Montijo, Countess of a principle might be a good rallying cry here, Teba, on the 29th January, at the Tuilleries, was it would there be the iteration of an old charter, signalized by pardoning 4312 persons suffering the perpetuation of an ancient right. As to the imprisonment or banishment for political offences. man's character we are wholly in the dark. However, those pardoned are generally obscure Whether malice, plunder, or ambition allure him; individuals, numbering many women and children, whether he smarts under private wrongs to be no person of note being found among those liberredressed by his own hand; or burning with a ated.- -The Legislative Assembly met on the patriotic zeal, and lighted through fields of ruin 14th February, and, with the other bodies, was and disaster by the star of hope, he seeks to re-addressed by the Emperor in a brief but emphatic generate his country. If it is the former, the bribe of a satrapy, judiciously held out, may stop his career at least for a season. If the latter, physical force, military resources and munition, and Tartar prestige can alone, by prompt and energetic movement, deprive him of success, and tread out, by the force of numbers, the spark of enthusiasm that animates him. Remote as the scene of action lies from us, we are vitally concerned in the issue; and, indeed, it is a matter that interests the whole world. Here is an immense flood of pent up life, a huge inhospitable corner of a vast continent teeming with the human element, hitherto inapproachable and impenetrable, except by a mendicant priest or two, whose theology turns to theocracy the mo ment it secures a resting place. Upon the chance of the present events seems to hang, to a great extent, the destiny of the world, whether twofifths of its population shall still abhor all communion with the other three-fifths; or, whether the brotherhood and family of nations shall recognise the tie of birth, and renew a consanguinity broken off for four thousand years. speech.- -A monument is to be erected to Marshal Ney, on the spot where he was executed, at the end of the avenue of the Luxembourg.-It is pretty well ascertained that the Pope will not be present at the coronation of the Emperor, there being difficulties in the way. AUSTRIA. From Austria we have no parricular news, except an attempt to assassinate the Emperor, and the execution of the criminal.- Hungary continues in a most unsettled state, and disturbances seem to be hydra-headed, so constantly are they arising; each fresh outbreak giving, of course, occasion for very frequent military executions.In Lombardy the harshest measures have been resorted to, in punishment for the Milan insurrection, and a great many executions have taken place upwards of thirty thousand confiscations have been made against residents in various foreign States. TURKEY. At different periods, and in the most solemn and emphatic ways, Russia, Austria, and the MonThe Americans are busying themselves in these tenegrians have confessed fealty to the Sultan ; affairs, and hope to divert the stream of profit to recently there seems to have been a desire of distheir own mill, to effect which it is to be presum- owning the Turkish authority.The Prince ed they will side with the family in power, offer- Bishop, Peter Petrowitch, died about a year ago, ing for privileges and consideration to prop up and was succeeded by his nephew, David Petrothe Tartar throne, and establish an exceptional witch, who has thrown off the Ottoman yoke, and exclusiveness, the exception being in their own declared his independence, and, as David I., bids favour. British interests appear to be with the the neighboring chieftains send their tithes and insurrectionary party, whose first act would be to tributes to his little treasury, rather than all the overturn the institutions that have fostered such way to Constantinople. Difficulties have arisen timid but rooted aversion to "barbarian" inter- with Russia, threatening to be even more difficourse. It is a great disadvantage to England to cult of arrangement than the Montenegrian affair, have been engaged in hostilities with the Chinese and Prince Menschikoff's arrival at Constantinso lately, for his defeat must still be fresh in the ople and imperious behavior have not as yet recollection of the Emperor, and he will be less smoothed the way for a settlement. His demands disposed to listen to our advice, having felt our upon the Turkish Government are said to relate sword, than he will to the smooth words of Amer- to the custody of the HOLY places—a subject ican diplomacy. We measure miles enough, how-upon which all the great powers, and France in ever, in British India to debar us in the name of particular, are jealously interested. prudence from any accession of territory, and our policy should be to sit still and watch without MAJOR.—NOW, Laird. (Laird reads.) meddling, so that we may embroil ourselves nei- CONVERSATION OVER A DISH OF PEARS ON NEW ther with the Emperor, the rebels, nor the Amei-YEAR'S DAY.-Gentlemen, here is a dish of pears cans. Commerce had better suck her thumb than of which I should be glad to hear your opinion. imbrue her hands in blood. 4. With pleasure sir; but be kind enough to |