COLONIES AND DEPENDENCIES.

month later than the previous dates. They confirm all the anticipations thus far entertained of a permanent and increasing yield. At Bathurst, and on the Turon River, operations were being steadily carried forward, and new deposits were found with sufficient frequency to show that the ultimate results are likely to be precisely similar to what has been realised at California. The fresh spots chiefly mentioned are at Braidwood and Lake Bathurst, about 150 miles south of Sydney, and consequently in a direction different to the discoveries hitherto, which have been to the north-west. Including the amount shipped in the present vessel (about 80,0007.) the total export from Sydney had already reached 340,000l. This was during a period of five months, and as it was estimated also that at least 100,000l. was still in the hands of miners, it would appear that the total production has been at the rate of upwards of 1,050,000%. per annum. Some considerable quantities of the gold from the Port Philip mines had found their way to Sydney, and had been readily bought on account of their great purity. 1000 ounces, purchased by one party at 31. 4s. 6d. per ounce, were found 7 per cent. better than standard. The scarcity of money, coupled with the wholly disproportionate arrivals of goods and produce, had created a ruinous state of affairs in the import market. Flour had fallen from 257. to 97. per ton, sugar from 237. to 177., and everything else in proportion.

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FROM the latest accounts from Bombay it appears that things are assuming a warlike aspect along the line of the north-western frontier. From Peshawur, it is stated, along to Dhera Ismael Khan, the tribes are either in arms, or preparing to take them up against us, and a general rising seems to be meditated. On the frontier a couple of skirmishes had already taken place. A detachment at a place called Muta, four miles from the outpost of Shubkudr, and to the north-east of Dubb, where the force of Sir C. Campbell has for some time lain inactive, was attacked by a large body of Momunds on the 8th of December. Our party consisted of a party of the guide corps, under Lieutenant Miller; a detail of artillery, under Lieutenant Simeon; and the 2nd Punjab cavalry, the whole commanded by Captain Jackson, of the latter corps. The enemy appear to have thought of taking our men by surprise, but the reception they met with quickly made them fly. The loss of the Momunds was variously estimated at from. 8 to 12 killed and 6 wounded. The guides had one man slightly wounded, and a sowar of Jackson's Irregulars, who were too late in the field to pursue the enemy with effect, was struck on the head with a spent ball. It is said that two of the chiefs of the Momunds, named Nawab Khan and Shaikh Abdoola, were both in the fray, and bore themselves very gallantly. The force under Sir C. Campbell had not been molested further than by small parties of the enemy descending from the hills on the camels and cattle while out grazing, several The dates from Melbourne, Port Philip, are to the of which they had succeeded in carrying off. The fort 6th November. The general rush from Melbourne and at Dubb was proceeding rapidly, and till it was com- Geelong to the mines at Ballarat appears to have repleted the general did not intend commencing offensive sulted in great disappointment, but there was subseoperations. The enemy were collecting in large num- quently a reaction in their favour. The police in the bers in his neighbourhood in the hills. He had been district had proved inefficient, and there had been some reinforced by Waller's troop of horse artillery, and some serious disturbances, accompanied by one cavalry and infantry. A wing of her Majesty's 53rd, instances of murder. The lieutenant-governor, during under Colonel Mansfield, while on its way to join his his visit to Ballarat, had proposed to the miners that camp, had been directed to proceed to Muta, where they should withdraw for two months, their claims they arrived on the 9th of December. The force at being meanwhile guarded, in order that the crops of Peshawur were on the alert night and day, and the the colony should not be destroyed. This," it is said, whole of the artillery had been recalled to the station."was warmly responded to by a very large majority, Messrs. Carne and Tapp, of the salt revenue department so that our harvest may now be considered safe." It on the frontier, have been murdered by a party of remained to be seen, however, whether the resolution natives in the Hazareh. They had been advised to would be maintained, and it was likely to be affected take a guard with them, but they had omitted doing so. | by some great discoveries since made at a place called The business on which they had gone having been per- Mount Alexander, which was alleged to eclipse Balformed, they were on. their way back when they were larat, and where it was said one man had obtained surrounded at a place called Moozufferghur. Mr. Tapp 11 pounds weight of gold in 48 hours. was for fighting their way with the few armed followers who accompanied them, but the treacherous natives promised them so solemnly that no harm would befall them if they gave up their arms, that Mr. Carne unfortunately persuaded his companions to avoid bloodshed. They accordingly gave up their arms, and had no sooner done so, than they were set on by the wretches, and cruelly murdered by being stoned to death. The murderers were demanded of the Chief of Am, whose subjects they were, and after considerable evasion on his part, 28 men were given up to Major Abbott; but it turns out that they had had no hand in the murder, but had been seized merely because they belonged to the same tribe as the murderers, who had never been apprehended by the chief at all. Matters are daily becoming more critical at the capital of the Nizam. His highness's debt has not yet been entirely liquidated, 310,000l. remaining to be paid us, and the bankers refuse to advance money to the minister. A monetary crisis has taken place in the city, and credit has fallen to a very low ebb. The Nizam will not pay, and it is probable our government will not allow themselves much longer to be trifled with; appropriation of territory in liquidation of our claim will, after all, most likely take place. The state of affairs in Oude is unsatisfactory; the king gives himself up to debauchery, and corruption in his ministry is loudly complained of.

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Accounts of the Australian gold mines have been received from Sydney to the 11th November, being a

The accounts from British Guiana are to the 12th of January. An important public meeting was held at George Town on the 30th of December, for the purpose of co-operating with the British and Foreign AntiSlavery Society in an effort to bring the case of the West Indies under the notice of the imperial parliament at an early period of the present session; petitions to both houses were drawn up and agreed to; gentlemen were also nominated to convene district meetings in various parts of the colony, for the purpose of seconding the measures adopted. The neighbouring colonies were expected to take the same course, in which event it was hoped that the case of West Indian distress would be laid before the British legislature with all the authority of a peaceful and loyal people addressing in a constitutional manner the representatives of the empire.

The last accounts from New Zealand describe a project which was likely to be carried out for the establishment of steam communication between the various settlements in that colony. Proposals had been submitted at a public meeting at Nelson for the formation of a joint-stock company, with a capital of 10,000l., in shares of 51. each. Two iron screw-steamers, one of 170 tons, and another of 50, would answer the contemplated purpose, and it was hoped that the services hitherto performed by the government brig would be transferred to the company, and that the 2000l. a year thus saved would be conceded to them for five years, or until the undertaking should be in a condition to dispense with it.

NARRATIVE OF FOREIGN EVENTS.

THE most important intelligence from France is the promulgation of the new law of the press. The following are its principal provisions :

"Journals and periodicals treating of political matter or social economy cannot be published without previous authorisation of the Government, which can only be accorded to a born FrenchThe same authorisation applies equally to the directors, writers, proprietors, and administrators of the paper; and no change can be allowed in the personnel of the paper without express leave of the Government.

man.

"Journals published in foreign countries can only circulate in France by virtue of an authorisation of Government; and those who act as introducers or distributors of foreign journals not authorised, become subject to imprisonment of from one month to a year, and a fine of from 100 francs to 5000 francs. "The cautiou-money of a daily journal is 50,000 francs: of a three-days-a-week, 30,000 francs. In towns of 50,000 inhabitants, 25,000 francs; below that number, 15,000 francs. A publication appearing without authority or caution-money will be fined from 100 francs to 2000 francs each number, with imprisonment from one month to two years of the offending parties, with abolition of the paper. The printer will be held equally responsible with the publisher.

"Papers of a certain size, 72 decimetres square, and periodical sets of prints, are to be stamped 6 cents each sheet in the depart ments of the Seine and the Seine et Oise, and 3 cents elsewhere. Political and social economy writings, not periodical, are to be taxed 5 cents a sheet not exceeding 10 decimetres square; and this is applicable to such writings published abroad when intro

duced into France.

"Foreign journals are to pay like stamp-duty, except there should be diplomatic conventions standing in the way of the regulation.

"Reports of the proceedings of the Senate are interdicted; but leave is given to copy the articles of the official journal. The same rule applies to sittings of the Council of State with closed doors. Reports of trials of offences by the press are interdicted. The courts of law may equally forbid publication of trials.

"Prints, engravings, medals, &c., must be authorised by the police. Booksellers must take out licenses, under penalty of two years' imprisonment and closing of establishment. "Offences by the press are no longer to be tried by the Assize Courts (meaning judge and jury), but by the Correctional

Police.

"One condemnation for crime, or two for contraventions of the law within two years, cause the suspension of the journal. "The Government may suspend any journal after two warnings, and for a period not exceeding two months. "The President of the Republic may by decree suspend any journal."

It is stated that a note has been received from the Emperor of Russia, expressing the distrust which he has felt on being informed of the decrees substituting the imperial eagle for the Gallic cock on the standards of the republic, placing the effigy of the President on the coins, and transferring the residence of the President to the Tuileries. The Emperor sees in these acts preliminaries of an imperial restoration, and of the foundation of a new dynasty, which he cannot countenance. When the arrival of the note or message was notified to M. Bonaparte at the Elysée, he is said to have been much chagrined: he presently had an interview with the Russian representative, to whom he gave formal explanations and assurances, disclaiming the ambitious projects imputed to him.

twenty-one years of age, in possession of civil and poli-
tical rights, are electors, and all electors of twenty-five
years old are eligible. A special law will regulate the
President. The number of deputies is to be 261.
mode of voting of the army for the election of the
The
Electoral College will meet on a Sunday or a festival day
if possible. No armed force can, without the authority
of the Electoral College, be present at the sittings, or
near the place where the Assembly meets. The Elec-
toral Colleges are convened for the 29th instant.

The Duchess of Orleans has addressed the following letter to the President, refusing the dotation of 300,000 francs per annum, maintained to her in the decree of January 22:-" Monsieur,-As I do not acknowledge your right to plunder my family, neither do I acknowledge your right to assign to me a dotation in the name of France. I refuse the dowry.-HELENA D'ORLEANS.”

When Lord Normanby was in Paris to take leave of the President, a whole army of tradesmen presented bills to the amount of upwards of 30007. The Marchioness of Normanby, to whom they desired to speak, answered their demand by showing account books, from which it appeared that all the bills had been paid at the end of the year with the customary regularity of the embassy. It turned out that his excellency's maitre d'hôtel, an Italian nanied Salvator, had embezzled the money with which he had been entrusted to pay the tradesmen. It is said that he admitted the fact, alleging as an excuse that he had been gambling at the Bourse. Lord Normanby wished not to prosecute the man, but the police heard of the story, and have arrested him.

An Attempt was made upon the Life of the Queen of Spain, at Madrid, on the 2nd inst., the day on which she was to go in solemn procession to the church of Atocha, to present the infant Princess Royal to "Our Lady of Atocha.” Her Majesty had just heard the mass of childbirth (mesa de parida) in the Chapel Royal, and was proceeding along the principal gallery towards the great staircase, when her progress was arrested by a priest who, kneeling, presented a memorial. Her Majesty, believing that he wished to present a memorial or petition, held out her hand to take it, but, instead of a paper, he suddenly drew forth a knife from beneath the folds of his robe, and made a stab at her side immediately above the hip. From the position of her arm, the deed was fortunately but half done; the arm was wounded, and the knife entered under the rib about an inch. The weapon struck her on the front part of the right side, penetrating through several folds/ of her mantle of velvet and gold, and cutting through the stays, the whalebone of which diminished the effect of the blow. The assassin, at the moment of striking, exclaimed "Toma, ya tienes bastante!" (Take it: you have now got enough!) The Queen's first thought was Mi nina!" she exclaimed: "Que for her child. cuidan á Isabel!" (My child!-let them take care of Isabel!) She then leaned against the wall, and placed her hand on her side, which was covered with blood. M. Bocher, one of the executors of Louis Philippe, At the same moment Count Pino-Hermoso rushed up has been arrested at Paris, in consequence, it is said, of in time to parry a second blow, and had his fingers information communicated to the government by the almost cut off. The Princess Royal was between her sub-prefect of the Avranches, one of the arrondissements Majesty and the King, carried on a cushion by the of the department of the Manche. That functionary is Marchioness de Povar. On hearing the Queen's cry, stated to have discovered and seized several parcels of this lady's nerves failed her, the royal infant slipped of documents consisting of addresses to the French nation, the cushion and fell to the ground! The nurse who proclamations to the army, and copious extracts trans- followed was pressed upon by the crowd, and sank lated into French from the English papers that have down in a corner in a fainting fit. When the Queen, censured the acts of the President and his government, after being carried to her room, asked for her child, it and it is further alleged that these and other papers is said that nobody about her knew where the infant were transmitted to France on behalf of the princes of was, and that it was afterwards found in the gallery in the Orleans family. The new Electoral Law has been the arms of a halberdier, who had picked the poor thing published. Each department is to return one deputy up. At the time the attempt was made, the ministers for every 35,000 electors, and one more in case of the were all at the church of Atocha, waiting for the arrival number exceeding 25,000. The suffrage is direct and of their Majesties and the royal family. The assassin, universal, and the scrutin secret. All Frenchmen of Martin All Frenchmen of Martin Merino, was a native of Arnedo, province of

Logrono, sixty-three years of age, an ex-friar of the Franciscan order, but secularised in 1821, on his own application. He was nearly six feet high, stout-bodied, with a dry, wrinkled countenance, very bright eyes, low forehead, and white hair. He left his convent in 1820. It appears that he had sung mass, and confessed and shriven several penitents, on the day he committed the crime. After he was seized, he was conveyed in a carriage to prison, the multitude in the streets being with difficulty prevented from tearing him in pieces. He was brought to trial on the 3d, and condemned to death by strangulation; which sentence was executed on the 7th, the criminal having previously been degraded from the priesthood. On his examination he declared that he had no accomplices, and his whole conduct was marked with cool indifference. The Queen's wound presented a serious aspect for some days, but she has now entirely recovered. She has presented to "Our Lady of Atocha" the mantle which she wore when she was stabbed, and which was pierced by the knife of the

assassin.

It appears by the accounts from Vienna that the police of that city are as active as ever. An order has been issued obliging all lodginghouse-keepers, although they may only let a single bed, to make known immediately the fact to the police, with every information about their tenant. In fact, there never was a time, not even during the most despotic period of the empire in France, when policemen intruded more perseveringly and vexatiously into the concerns of private life.

Patacki, the Hungarian arrested at Rendsberg, in Schleswig-Holstein, on the charge of being an emissary of Kossuth, was executed on the 5th instant, for having tried to seduce Hungarian regiments from their allegiance to the emperor.

Intelligence from Berlin states, that Privy Councillor Niebuhr, son of the historian, is gone on a mission to London, partly in order to notify the satisfaction of the Prussian court at Lord Granville's appointment, partly in order to inquire into complaints raised that the Prussian ambassador at London, Chevalier Bunsen, in consequence of his family connexions with English society, does not pursue Prussian interests with desirable

Venice is only 5,000,000. The pressure upon the taxpayers is producing extensive emigration.

Accounts have been received from the Coast of Africa of the Destruction of the Town of Lagos by the boats of the English squadron, under Commodore Bruce, on the 26th and 27th of December. Lagos is a considerable Negro town on the river You, which flows into the Bight of Benin, and connects Lagos with the town of Abeokuta, another populous place in the interior, under another king. The late King of Lagos had two sons, Akitoye the younger, and Kosoko the elder: Kosoko was rebellious in his father's lifetime, and was banished to Badagry; Akitoye was made the heir of the King by his will. When Akitoye ascended the throne, he invited his brother home; Kosoko went home; and before long he made a party, by whose aid he deposed Akitoye, drove him out of Lagos to Badagry, and made himself King of Lagos. Commodore Bruce, in his despatch to the Admiralty, states as follows the reasons for his attack. "Their lordships are aware that Kosoko very recently rejected the proffered friendship of England, and that he opposed with fire and sword the approach of a flag of truce proceeding to his seat of government with Mr. Consul Beecroft, who offered to negociate and to advise with him, and who was merely attended by an escort of armed boats, scarcely or problematically sufficient for his personal safety among savages. I therefore determined to send a strong and well-organised force to punish this refractory chief, and having, through the untiring energy and exertions of Mr. Beecroft, procured the attendance of Akitoye and nearly five hundred of his followers near the scene of action, ready to take advantage of a clear sweep when we should make it, I concerted measures with Captain Lewis Jones, of the Sampson, and Captain H. Lyster, of this ship (the Penelope), who both were volunteers on the occasion, and entrusted the detail and execution of the service to Captain Jones, seconded by Captain Lyster, and their lordships will see, from the accompanying reports, the complete success with which the enterprise has been crowned." The Commodore proceeds to make an official report of the action, but a more graphic account is given in a letter written on board one of the ships engaged, from which we take the following_extracts; premising that the expedition entered the Lagos River on the 23rd, rested on Christmas Day, attacked the town on the 26th and Accounts from Rome state that the Austrian troops at 27th, and occupied it on the 28th. "The attack on Ancona have been recently supplied with 16 of the the 26th, began at half-past four in the morning. The newly-invented German rifles to every company of 180 Bloodhound, with Captain Jones, led in; then the port men. These soldiers are now daily drilling as sharp-division of boats, consisting of two paddle and pinnace. shooters. It appears that the whole Austrian infantry of Sampson, under command of Lieutenant Saumarez, has been similarly supplied, and the officers declare that followed; then the Teazer weighed, with Captain these rifles will carry with decided effect upwards of a Lyster; and then the starboard division, under comthousand yards. Great pains are bestowed by the mand of Commander Hillyar, of Penelope, which conAustrian officers in keeping the troops under their sisted of her two paddle-box boats, pinnace, and the command in the highest state of efficiency. In the rocket-boats, each boat commanded by the Lieutenants provinces occupied by them, soon after daylight, the of Penelope, and the rocket party by Lieutenant soldiers are to be seen spread about through the vine- Corbett, Gunnery Lieutenant. As the Bloodhound yards, hills, and dales, carrying on sham-fights, and steamed up, a terrific fire was opened on her by all other military exercises. In Rome, the Chasseurs de the batteries and thousands of musketry; which was Vincennes continue to improve by practice the deadly returned by her with shot and shell. She got up to her aim of their unerring rifles. destination with little damage, and then got aground at musket-shot from the platform battery. Then followed the port division of boats, under a complete was returned in good style from the boats, who pulled up gallantly, and took up their position opposite a twogun battery, and which they soon silenced. Then came the Teazer with the starboard division; and, in trying to keep away to bring her guns to bear to cover the port division of boats, unfortunately took the ground, and could not get off. She was there exposed to the fire of twenty guns. Captain Lyster instantly, finding all attempts to get her off of no avail, took the command of the starboard division of boats, and made for the shore, for the purpose of spiking the guns. After firing several rockets they dashed in, and effected a landing, and took one battery by storm, spiking its guns. The enemy charged them on each flank, and a retreat was necessary. The enemy got possession of her paddle-box boat, the cowardly Kroomen having jumped overboard

energy.

The Belgian government has just ordered an aug-storm of musketry, grape, round, and canister; which mentation of 100 men in each of the battalions of the regiments of the line of the Belgian army. As there are 49 battalions, this will make the total augmentation 4900. It is reported also, that the government intends to apply to the Chambers for a credit of 6,000,000fr. for the establishment of an intrenched camp in the environs of Antwerp, and for putting into a state of defence the Tête de Flanders.

A letter from Milan in the Opinione of Turin of the 13th, states that the forts of Milán are to be immediately completed, and that the government has established a reserve fund to meet the expenses of a war, in case it should break out. Lombardy is at this moment entirely supporting by her taxes 100,000 men of the Army in Austrian Italy. The population of Lombardy and

ing to the present king, Akitoye, placed on the throne, and all his men with him. Thus finishes the capture of Lagos, and with it, we hope, the suppression of the slave-trade."

The official return of the killed and wounded exhibits a most serious loss:

Killed 15, wounded 75. Of the killed, 14 were officers and marines and Kroomen belonging to the ship Penelope, who endeavoured to spike the guns which were firing on the Teazer when she lay aground. Mr. F. R. Fletcher, midshipman of the Penelope, Mr. Thomas Richards, midshipman of the Sampson, and Mr. H. M. Gillham, master's assistant of the Penelope, were the officers killed; Captain Henry Lyster, Commander C. F. Hillyar, Lieutenant J. Corbett, and First Lieutenant of Marines, J. W. C. Williams, all of the Penelope, with Lieutenant Thomas Saumarez, of the Sampson, were wounded " "severely.”

A charge was then made to recapture; but finding so many wounded, and two killed, they retreated to the other boats, and embarked; not, however, without the gunner's mate, who was left in the boat, having received two wounds igniting the magazine, and jumping overboard, when he was picked up in Captain Lyster's gig. This left the Teazer quiet, as also the enemy, who took off the heads of the two dead men, and which we have since found in the King's house. During this time the Bloodhound had silenced the batteries; but remained still aground; and the boats proceeded round the north point and silenced one or two more batteries by the time it was eleven o'clock; when they were all recalled, and went to dinner, being annoyed_occasionally by the musketry opposite. At one, the Teazer signalised her killed and wounded, and was signalised to close when the tide turned, and she could get off. At two, P.M., the boats of the Sampson, with a spiking party, under command of Lieutenant Saumarez and Lieutenant M'Arthur, with all his Majesty's artillery, were ordered to land, and spike the guns in the batteries under cover of the Sampson's boat, in charge of Mr. Bayley (mate). When they left the ship, the place opposite looked quite deserted. The boats pushed for the shore; but they had to cut and break through a stockade in the water, the carpenters with axes, the men with tomahawks; when the enemy, who were lying in ambush, opened a terrific fire, and in less than ten minutes, finding they could not cut and force this stockade, they had to return to the Bloodhound, having Lieutenant Saumarez severely wounded in three-principally from the contributions of the working places, Mr. Richards, midshipman, mortally (since dead), and eleven men severely wounded. The stockades consisted of green cocoa-nut trees, then sand, and then cocoa-nut trees; hence they had no splinters. In each stockade was a trench; so that when a shell was fired at them they jumped in the trench, and hence escaped danger. Each stockade had a ditch to communicate, so that they could reinforce or retreat at leisure. About fifteen feet from the shore, in nine feet water, were a quantity of bamboo stakes, so firmly driven in, and so secure, that 130 pounds of gunpowder could not effect a breach, and hence prevented any one from landing. At 4.30 the Teazer got off, and anchored in deep water; buried her dead, and sent her wounded out of the river. Thus ended the 26th. "At daylight on the 27th, the Teazer weighed under a terrific fire; which was returned by the Bloodhound and herself, and anchored astern of Bloodhound, having had her gunner, Mr. Howard, as also some men, severely wounded. The rocket-boat then commenced an opening fire, and the two steamers and boat commenced shelling, as also the Volcano's and Water-witch's boats, which had then arrived. The rocket-boat succeeded in setting fire to Tappi, the second chief's house, and the place was in a blaze. Commander Coote then took the boat, with the rocket-boat still in command of Lieutenant Marshall (first of Penelope), and attacked the batteries towards the King's house. This, and a little more skirmishing, lasted till sunset; when the rest of the wounded were sent out. You may imagine their sufferings, when they left at 8 p. m., and were obliged to anchor all night off the bar, and did not reach their ships till next morning at 9.30.

On the 28th, at daybreak, the town was found deserted, the enemy having left on the other side of the island in their canoes. The forces then landed and took possession; fifty-seven guns were taken and destroyed; the paddle-box boat retaken, with gun; and all belong

The dates from New York are to the 11th inst. The political intelligence is unimportant.-The town of Parkersville has been thrown into a state of intense excitement by the arrival of a band of Delaware Indians from a hunting expedition, who brought with them a large quantity of gold dust, finer than California "dust." The Indian, from whom it was purchased, said that he obtained it on this side of the mountains, about 700 miles west of Parkersville.-Kossuth had raised six thousand dollars in Pittsburg and its vicinity classes, numbers of whom he has personally visited in the foundries, factories, &c. The Ohio State senators have subscribed five dollars each to the Hungarian fund. Kossuth left Columbus on the morning of the 9th inst., in company with the joint committee of the legislature, together with the governor and lieutenant-governor. At Xenia, Springfield, Dayton, and Hamilton, he met with enthusiastic receptions, but on account of loss of voice was able to speak but little. About 1000 dollars were contributed on the route, and at Hamilton the people, by a resolution, tendered a loan of 500 muskets in the possession of the county. The train entered Cincinnati amid the roar of cannon. The procession, comprising all the military and fire companies and other societies, formed at the depôt, and conducted Kossuth through the principal streets of the city to the Burnett House, where a suite of apartments, had been fitted up for him. He appeared on the balcony, and was most enthusiastically cheered, but owing to the delicate state of his health he was unable to speak.

The

The census of the Mormon territory of Utah has been published. The number of dwellings in the territory when the census was taken was 2322; families the same; white male inhabitants, 6032; white females, 5038; total number of whites, 11,330; free coloured males, 12; and the same number of females; making the total free population, 11,354. There are 26 slaves, all of whom reside in Utah county. number of deaths during the year was 239; and the number of farms in the territory was 926; number of manufacturing establishments, 16. The total population of the territory, free and slave, amounts to 11,380. There are seven counties, respectively named Davis, Great Salt Lake, Iron, San Pete, Tooele, Utah, and Weber. The most populous of these are Great Salt Lake, with 6157 inhabitants; Utah, with 2026; Weber, with 1186; and Davis, with 1134.

NARRATIVE OF LITERATURE AND ART.

THE supply of books which is generally looked for at this busiest of bookselling seasons, has not greatly abated either in quality or number during the past month. We give precedence, as usual, to the graver and more important subjects.

The Memoirs and Correspondence of Mallet Du Pan, published some months ago from the papers of his family, has been translated into English, and issued in

two octavo volumes. Mallet du Pan was a journalist of enlarged knowledge and liberal views, whom the agitations of the first French Revolution so little shook from principles already formed before they broke out, that to the opinions maintained in his journal on the meeting of the States General, he adhered until the seizure of supreme power by Napoleon. The book possesses, in consequence, a political as well as historical