this court. In presenting you this letter I speak the attacked Ningpo and were allowed to penetrate to military force already under arms. All classes of sentiments of the president, by assuring you of the the market place when the fire was opened upon citizens are made to bear a part, either as actors or respect and esteem of my government for the sover-them and 250 killed on the spot. The rest fled and contributors in the affair. Contributions are levied, eign of this country, its political institutions, and the the 49th regiment pursued for many miles. The at- taxes imposed, and men drafted-in short every step people, and of its sincere desire to draw closer the tack upon Chinhae was more feeble. Many Chinese is being taken to supply both men and money for a ties of friendship which so fortunately unite the two war-junks and fire sampans were destroyed in the vigorous and formidable compaign against the "rebelnations. It is my ardent wish that Spain, under her vicinities of the same places at the same time. Sir lious Texians." present constitutional form of government, and go- Hugh Gough learning subsequently that a Chinese CENTRAL AMERICA. verned with firmness, wisdom and patriotism, should force of 3 or 4,000 men were encamped at Tsekce Belize papers to 11th ult. contains the proenter a new era of prosperity and glory. Your high-eleven miles west of Ningpo, attacked them on the clamation of Admiral Adams, commander-in-chief ness will permit me to express the great pleasure 15th March defeated and put them to flight. All their of the Britsh West India naval forces, announcwhich I personally experience at being charged with losses are variously estimated from four to nine thou-ing the blockade of the port of San Juan de Nicara mission, the sole object of which shall be to strength- sand men. Advices also represented the Chinese agua, in consequence of the mal-treatment of several en the mutual and cordial good understanding exist- army south of the Hangchou river to be in a state of British subjects by persons in authority in the Cening between my country and a nation for which I insubordination and want of supplies. tral American states, and for which redress had been ever professed the highest esteem. The latest news is that through directly by the sought in vain. Horatio given last week. The Canton Press of May 14th, says: We hear that a boat of the American frigate Constellation, when sounding in Salt Junk River, was warned off by the Chinese by some blank shots, which not being taken notice of, the Chinese fired at the boat with grape which fell but little short of her. Commodore Kearney, we are told, has demanded satisfaction for this insult to the American flag, and it is said the Chinese have made the most ample apology for the mistake; and the Ty-tuck or Chinese admiral of the station has paid a visit to the American commander at Whampoa. The regent replied: "I am happy to receve the assurance of the most good wishes of the president of the United States towards my queen and country. I share the sentiments of the successor of the illustrious Washington, and feel deeply interested in his glory, and most ardently desire the consolidation of the liberty and glory of the United States. I am likewise delighted, sir, that you should have been chosen to convey to me the wishes of your government." Advices from Madrid of the 8th instant, mention . that a commission of senators, deputies and capitalists had met to examine two plans of loans, having for their object to raise money on the 120,000,000 reals remaining of the 160,000,000 of royal bonds.- That paper of a previous date has the following:One of these plans proposes to give only 80,000.000 We understand that commodore Kearney, whose for the 120,000,000, the other but 60,000,000, or one-ship still remains at Whampoa, and will be joined half the amount, the remainder to be paid in protest- there by the Boston, had some difficulty at first to ed bills of the government. Barcelona was tranquil convey a communication to the local authorities of Canton, the Hong merchants being desirous that it should pass through their hands, which the commodore refused. It was at last settled that an officer from the Constellation, a lieutenant of marines, should deliver the letter, and he in consequence went up to Canton, and was there received, at the Consoohouse by the Kwangheep (military commandant of Canton) to whom it was handed. An answer has, we learn, been since sent to the frigate at Whampoa.The subject of the correspondence is, we believe, the The hostilities which had been rumored to have attack on the boat of the Morrison, on the 22d of broken out between Turkey and Persia had not yet May last, when a Mr. Sherry was killed by the Chiassumed a very sanguinary character, but prepara-nese, and the authorities of Canton excuse or pallitions were going on at Constantinople to push the ate this event by stating that the boat was attacked war as hard as the limited means of the government at a momentof great excitement and disorder, when it would permit. was difficult to distinguish between neutrals and enemies. on the 9th instant. We learn from Madrid, under date of August 1st, that Mr. Albuquerque, charge d'affaires of Brazil, presented his credentials to the regent. The army of observation on the Portuguese frontier had again been reinforced. A large number of the Spanish troops quartered on the frontier had deserted into France. They are supposed to have imbibed the Carlist infection. TURKEY AND PERSIA. The Augsburg Gazette of the 5th ult. publishes accounts from Constantinople of July 20th. They state that considerable reinforcements were then on their march to Bagdad. Two regiments of infantry of the imperial guard embarked for Smyrna on the 19th, under the command of Mustapha pasha. They were to proceed thence to Damascus, where Nedschib pasha, the new governor of Bagdad, was to join them with 3,000 men. The pasha of Aleppo had also been directed to form a junction with those troops with all his disposable forces, and once united, the three corps were to march in the direction of Bagdad.The two regiments of cavalry of the guard and the artillery were to proceed overland to Samsoon, and thence to Bagdad through Koordistan. A regiment of infantry was advancing in the same direction from Sivas, and a regiment of cavalry from Angora. The pasha of Mossul was also on his way thither at the head of 10,000 irregulars, and was to assume the command-in-chief of the army. SYRIA. Since the resignation of Venancio Lopez as president of Central America and the accession of Rivera Paz to the same office, nothing important appears to have occurred there, if we except the blockade above mentioned. Ex-president Morazan is still exerting himself to recover his lost fortunes. [N. Y. Jour. Com. NATIONAL AFFAIRS. APPOINTMENTS BY THE PRESIDENT, BY AND WITH THE ADVICE AND CONSENT OF THE SENATE. Francis Robert Rives, of Virginia, secretary of the legation of the United States near her Britannic majesty, in the place of Benjamin Rush, resigned. John Howard Payne, of New York, consul of the United States for the city and Kingdom of Tunis, in the place of William B. Hodgson, res.gned. George W. Macrae, attorney of the U. States for the southern district of Florida, in the place of L. W. Smith, resigned. Q. C. Alexander, of Illinois, at Bombay, in the place of E. A. Webster. John R. Cooke, of Virginia, at Xibara, in Cuba, in the place of C. J. Balius, resigned. Eben Ritchie Dorr, of Massachusetts, at Valparaiso, in the place G. G. Hobson, resigned. Collectors of the customs. J. H. Lathrop at Buffalo, New York, vice George W. Clinton, whose commission has expired. Joseph Ramsey, at Plymouth, North Carolina, reappointed. Thomas S. Singleton, Newbern, North Carolina. re-appointed. E. H. Taylor, at Vicksburg, Mississippi, vice John Thatcher, whose commission has expired. Charles G. Holmes, at Fall River, Massachusetts, Land officers. Samuel Russell, register of the land office at Newnansville, Florida. A private letter from Beyrout of 24th ult. mentions GREECE. A letter from Athens, under date of July 31, says that the greatest confusion prevailed in the councils of King Otho, a portion of the cabinet supporting Russian interests and another those of France.The government had drained the treasury in order to forward 500,000 drachins to Baron de Rothchild, to pay the interest of the loan, relying on France to advance the additional million necessary to complete the sum required for that purpose. Riors of a serious character occurred the last John Parsons receiver of public moneys at the same place. Albert W. Parris, register of the land office, at Muscoday, Wiskonsan, vice Josiah D. Weston, resigned. Surveyors. William M. Jones, at South Quay, Va. Re-appointed. Robert H. Webb, at Suffolk, Virginia. Re-appointed. Daniel Burrows, at Middletown Connecticut. Reappointed. Appraiser. Chas. Francis Breuil, at Philadelphia, vice Richard Coe, removed. THE TREATY CONCLUDED WITH TEXAS, which was laid before the senate by the president a few days before congress adjourned, we learn from the Natronal Intelligencer of the 6th instant, was by that body deferred being considered until their next session. The hon. JAMES REILY, charge de affairs of Texas, between whom and the secretary of state the treaty was concluded, has returned to Texas. -- Lord Ashburton, accompanied by his suite, em The arrival of the Levant mail has put us in possession of advices from Constantinople of the 27th EARTHQUAKE. Another earthquake was felt at ult. Smyrna of the 29th, and Alexandria of the 26th Calamata on the 12th, which was more violent, perult. and Malta of the 5th. Preparations were mak-haps, than the shock experienced there in Aprii last. ing in the Ottoman capital for hostilities, and Riza The church of St. George, which was remarkable Kauli Khan, who commands the Persians, had had a for its beauty and solidity, was destroyed and two skirmish with the governor of Soleimania, in which others, with some forty or fifty houses, were more or he had been worsted. The English and Russian go- less damaged. vernments had offered their mediation without effect. CANADA. It was officially notified to the Persian consul, on the 25th ult. that he and his countrymen would not be week in August at and in the vicinity of St. Cathe-barked in the British frigate Farspite, on Saturday allowed to remain more than 15 days at Constantino-rines, commenced by Irish emegrants who had gone last and sailed from the Hook for England, on Monple. On the same day Ali pacha was publicly dis- there in search of employment, they resorted to out- day. Previous to his departure, complimentary samissed from the grand council, and has been suc-rage on finding none. The place for some time was lutes were exchanged between the Warspite and the ceeded by Raouf pacha. It would appear from the completely at the mercy of the mob, the inhabitants U. States ship North Carolina, which the Journal of Augsburg Gazette of the 12th inst. that the mani- owning that their safety depended upon non resist-Commerce says-were responded to in affectionate festo of the schah of Persia against Turkey cuts of ance. The rioters soon seperated into the Fardown regard by the whole mass of citizens." all hope of an amicable arrangement between those and Corkonian factions, and fought each other. One two countries. At a recent deliberation of the divan of the magistrates at Broad Creek had the firmness it was resolved to appoint the uncle of the reigning at length to rally the militia; and with the assistance schah, and brother to the late Abbas Mirza, general- of the crew of the steamer Minos succeeded in dislissimo of the army. This personage, who has re- persing the riotors, taking 200 prisoners which they peatedly appealed to the European powers, for aid to marched in triumph to Danville. After exammaenable him to recover his throne, has lived for some tion all but 85 of them were discharged; eighteen of time past in retirement in Asia Minor. the leaders were confined on board of the Mitos. MEXICO. CHINA. The circular of the pienipotentiary, Sic H. Pottinger from Macao, April 1st, 1842, announced the defeat of two bodies of Chinese troops in an attack ou Ningpo and Chinhac on the 10th March; 12,000 Accounts from Tampico as late as the 27th ult. represent great preparations being made for sending an overwhelming force into Texas. They are increasing the navy, and daily augmenting the large MR. DERRICK, of the department of state, bearer to London of the ratification by the United States of the treaty of Washington, sailed in the steamer Bri tannia from Boston for Liverpool on the 29th ult. CONSULS. The president has recognised Elward Stricker, as consul of the Grand Duke of Sax: Weimar, for the state of New York; and Alexander Daker, vice consul of Russia for the port of New York Charles Nicholas, of Pennsylvania, to be consul of the United States for the port of Amsterdam. THE POUND STERLING. The act of last session to regulate the value to be affixed to the pound sterling by the treasury department, enacts "That in all payments by or to the treasury, whether made here or in foreign countries, where it becomes necessary to compute the value of the pound sterling, it shall be deemed equal to four dollars and eightyfour cents and the same rule shall be applied in appraising merchandise imported where the value is by the invoice in pounds sterling. THE ARMY. Head quarters of the army, adj't genl's office, 2. Of the ordnance already in battery, at the works indicated above, all will be dismounted except, at each work, one casemate-gun and one in barbette, per company, for the exercise and instruction of its garrison. 3. The commanders of the several posts will retain mounted the guns, as above, the best situated for instruction. 4. The ordnance department has been directed to take measures for dismounting the guns and also for the care and preservation of dismounted guns and their carriages, as well as for the housing of such as may remain in barbette. Commanders of forts will wait for the arrival of an officer of that department, and give him all the aid and assistance that may be necessary. By command of Major General SCOTT. L. THOMAS, ass'l adj't gen. Head quarters of the army, adjutant gen's office. Washington, Aug. 26, 1842. Promotions in the army of the United States, by the president, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, since the promulgation of "general orders" No 44, of July 21, 1842. 1. PROMOTIONS. First lieutenant Edmund Schriver, to be captain, PROMOTIONS BY BREVET. brevet, for gallantry and successful conduct in the fifty privates; and the second regiment of dragoons now in service shall be converted, after the fourth day of March next, into a regiment of riflemen; and each company of artillery shall consist of the commissioned officers as now provided by law, and of four sergeants, four corporals, two artificers, two musicians and forty-two privates; and each company First lieutenant William Alburtis, of the 2d regi- of infantry shall consist of the same number of comment of infantry, to be captain by brevet, for gallan-missioned officers as now provided, and of four sertry and good conduct in the war against the Florida geants, four corporals, two musicians and forty-two Indians, to date from March 2, 1841. privates; and that no recruits shall be enlisted for the dragoons, artillery or infantry, until the numbers in the several companies shall be reduced by the expiration of the term of service, by discharge, or other causes, below the number herein fixed for the said companies respectively. Provided, That nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the re enlistment of non-commissioned officers, whose terms of service may expire before the army shall be re First lieutenant W. H. T. Walker, of the 6th re- Second lieutenant Douglass S. Irwin, of the 3d re- Deaths. (2.) Major Isaac Clark, quartermaster's duced to the number heretofore established. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the offices of the superintendents of the armories at Springfield and at Harper's Ferry shall be, and the same are hereby, abolished, and the duties thereof shall be performed by such officers of the ordnance corps as shall be designated by the president; and that from and after the first day of October next, the master armorers, III. The officers promoted will join their proper at the national armories, shall receive, each, twelve companies without delay; those on detached service hundred dollars, annually, payable quarter yearly; or acting under special instructions, will report by and the inspectors and clerks each eight hundred dolletter to the commanding officers of their respective lars per annnm; and the paymasters and military regiments. By command of major general Scott. storekeepers, at the armories, and at the arsenals of R. JONES, adjutant general. construction at Pittsburg, Watervliet, and Washington city, shall receive each twelve hundred and fifty GENERAL ORDERS-NO. 57. dollars annually, payable in like manner, and the said Head quarters of the army, adj't genl's office, Washington, Aug. 27, 1942. paymasters and military storekeepers, shall give seThe major general commanding the army has curity for the faithful discharge of the duties, in such received the following order, which is published for sum as the secretary of war shall prescribe. And the two military storekeepers, authorized by the act of the information and government of all concerned: second of March, one thousand eight hundred and War department, Aug. 26, 1842. The fourth section of the act of congress, entitled twenty-one, shall receive each, twelve hundred and fifty dollars per annum. And no military storekeep"an act respecting the organization of the army and er, at arsenals, shall after the first of October next, for other purposes," approved August 23, 1842, pro-receive as pay, or emoluments, beyond eight hundred vides that within one month after the passage of the dollars per annum, besides quarters actually providact, the offices of three paymasters, two surgeons, ed and occupied as such, and the number authorised and ten assistant surgeons, shall be abolished, and to be thus employed is hereby limited to ten. that number of paymasters, surgeons, and assistant surgeons, shall be discharged by the president. The The difficulty of discharing the duty thus enjoined And all other offices of military storekeepers are hereby abolished, and discontinued, on and after said first day of October, and the officers hereby dismissed, shall be allowed three months' pay in addition to the pay and emoluments to which they may be entitled on that day. And none of the above named officers, and no officers at the armories, of any grade whatever shall hereafter receive emoluments of any kind stipulated pay, in money, except quarters actually or any compensation or commutation beyond their provided for and occupied by such officers. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the office of commissary general of purchases, sometimes called Colonel W. J. Worth, of the 8th regiment of infantry, to be brigadier general by brevet, for gallantry and highly distinguished services as commander of the forces against the Florida Indians, to date from March 1, 1842. Brevet major Thomas Childs, of the 3d regiment of been collected from official sources, and an impartial commissary of purchases, shall be, and the same is artillery, to be lieutenant colonel by brevet, for gallant Judgment has been formed without reference to any hereby abolished, and the duties thereof shall hereconduct and repeated successes in the war against interests of the service. And in the designation of master's department, with such of the officers and other considerations than such as regarded the best after be performed by the officers of the Quarterthe Florida Indians, between November, 1840, and those whose lot it is to retire, it is to be distinctly un- clerks now attached to the purchasing department as March, 1842, to date from February 1, 1841. Major W. G. Belknap, of the 8th regiment of in-derstood that nothing is to be inferred derogatory to shall be authorized by the secretary of war, and unfantry, to be lieutenant colonel by brevet, for geneThe president therefore directs that the following said secretary, under the sanction of the president of der such regulations as shall be prescribed by the ral good conduct in the war against the Florida In-named officers be disbanded and honorably discharg the U. States. dians, and for securing by military operations and ed from the army of the United States from and afnegotiations a great number of prisoners, to date ter the 23d day of September next, when they will from March 15, 1842. receive the three months' additional pay provided by Captain Justin Dimick, of the 1st regiment of artillery, to be major by brevet, for gallant and meritorious conduct in the war against the Florida Indians, to date from May 8, 1836. ar Captain W. W. Morris, of the 4th regiment of tillery, to be major by brevet, for gallant conduct on several occasions and general efficiency in the war against the Florida Indians, to date from January 27, 1837. Captain George Andrews, of the 6th regiment of infantry, to be major by brevet, for gallantry and good conduct in the war against the Florida Indians, to date from December 25, 1837. Captain Frederick Searle, of the quartermaster's department, to be major by brevet, from the 25th of November, 1839, the day when he received the wound under which he is now suffering. Captain James R. Irwin, of the 1st regiment of artillery, captain in the staff, July 7, 1838, to be captain by brevet, for gallantry and good conduct in the war against the Florida Indians, to date from August 21, 1836. First lieutenant John F. Lee, of the ordnance department, (late of the 1st regiment of artillery, to be captain by brevet for gallantry and good conduct in the war against the Florida Indians, to date from January 27, 1837. Captain Robert Anderson, captain of the 3d regiment of artillery, October 23, 1841, to becap tain by their fame or worth. the act; viz: Abraham A. Massias and Charles Mapes, pay masters in the army, there being now one vacancy in the office of paymaster. P. Maxwell, surgeon, there being now one vacan- S. R. Arnold, W. T. Leonard, B. W. Woods, C. W. The disbanded paymasters, surgeons and assistant J. C. SPENCER. By command of Major General Scorr. AN ACT respecting the organization of the army, mouth after the passage of this act, the offices of one Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That, within one inspector general, of three paymasters, two surgeons, ished, and that number of paymasters, surgeons, and and ten assistant surgeons of the army shall be abolassistant surgeons, shall be discharged by the presiaddition to the pay and emoluments to which they may dent; and they shall be allowed three months' pay, in entitled at the time of their discharge. be Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That a competent person may be employed by the ordnance bureau, under the direction of the secretary of war, for such facture of iron cannon at the several foundries where time as may be necessary, to superintend the manusuch cannon may be made under contracts with the United States, whose pay and emoluments shall not exceed those of a major of ordnance during the time he shall be so employed, to be paid out of the appropriations for armament of fortifications; and for the services rendered in such superintendence since the first day of March, eighteen hundred and forty-one, under the authority of the war department, the same compensation shall be allowed as herein provided. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the rations Be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives authorized to be allowed to a brigadier while comof the United States of America in congress assembled, mander-in-chief, and to each officer while commandThat hereafter, and so soon as the reduction can being a separate post, by the act of March third, seveneffected as herein provided, each company of dra- teen hundred and ninety-seven, and to the commandgoons shall consist of the commissioned officers as ing officers of each separate post, by the act of March now provided by law, and of four sergeants, four cor-sixteen, eighteen hundred and two, shall hereafter porals, two buglers, one farrier and blacksmith, and be allowed to the following officers and no others: rs. Harnden & Co. have a letter from tates that "the house of sir Robert rth, was surrounded by a mob on the t and burnt. Troops were sent fr to quell the riot. FRANCE. inisterial candidate M. Sauzet, wa ent of the chamber of deputies në On the first ballot he received Barrot 131; M. Dufaure 39; and then ing votes. On the second ball: ed on M. Dufaure, who had 154 s. erial party on M. Sauzet, wha chosen by a majority of 43.0 he ministerial candidates were che The 4th, M. Belleyme had r. Tracy, the highest opposition the 9th, the president of the co chamber of deputies the regr troduced by an interesting speec he principles on which it is based e age at which the king attains en. From the moment of the king sor be under age, the prince e order of succession established s 330, and 21 years of age, is to egency, during the whole pers The full and entire exercise of t he name of the king under age. gent. The safe-keeping and ga ng whilst under age is to beg cess his mother, if not married thereof, to his grandmother, if The committee to whom the bu ted unanimously in favor of ut that it would pass. ny of interring the remains ns took place on the 4th ult we es. that the chamber of deputies 25th inst. In spite of the aure, ministers have secured: welve out of fourteen of the cretaries of the chamber, whi inted to prepare the address t of nine belong to the minist of Marseilles, of the 13th as oisier steam ship was about? o demand satisfaction for an diers of that power to the F hat a boat, belonging to Ca ad been fired upon. The 1 Hugon had moved from the Ajaccio. The Rhone cor board who is to command: - on the coast of New Zeala stination. SPAIN. ISTER AT THE SPANISH cont esq. addressed the follow when presenting to him his c 7 handing to your highness i a letter from the presiden erica, accrediting me 25 minister plenipotentiary i on the 9th instant. We learn from Madrid, under date of August 1st, that Mr. Albuquerque, charge d'affaires of Brazil, presented his credentials to the regent. The army of observation on the Portuguese frontier had again been reinforced. A large number of the Spanish troops quartered on the frontier had deserted into France. They are supposed to have imbibed the Carlist infection. TURKEY AND PERSIA. The hostilities which had been rumored to have broken out between Turkey and Persia had not yet assumed a very sanguinary character, but preparations were going on at Constantinople to push the war as hard as the limited means of the government would permit. The Augsburg Gazette of the 5th ult. publishes accounts from Constantinople of July 20th. They state that considerable reinforcements were then on their march to Bagdad. Two regiments of infantry of the imperial guard embarked for Smyrna on the 19th, under the command of Mustapha pasha. They were to proceed thence to Damascus, where Nedschib pasha, the new governor of Bagdad, was to join them with 3,000 men. The pasha of Aleppo had also been directed to form a junction with those troops with all his disposable forces, and once united, the three corps were to march in the direction of Bagdad.The two regiments of cavalry of the guard and the artillery were to proceed overland to Samsoon, and thence to Bagdad through Koordistan. A regiment of infantry was advancing in the same direction from Sivas, and a regiment of cavalry from Angora. The pasha of Mossul was also on his way thither at the head of 10,000 irregulars, and was to assume the command-in-chief of the army. Canton, the Hong should pass through t dore refused. It was from the Constellation deliver the letter, and Canton, and was ther by the Kwangheep ( ton) to whom it was learn, been since sen The subject of the co attack on the boat May last, when a Mr nese, and the authorit ate this event by stati at a momentof great e was difficult to disting mies. A private letter fro that the British vice o ton, had been illy tre immediate satisfaction forded by the govern Jerusale:n had quarrel works of the Protestan suspended. Bishop A bed from fever. A letter from Ather that the greatest conf of King Otho, a port Russian interests an The government had to forward 500,000 di to pay the interest of advance the additiona the sum required for EARTHQUAKE. An Calamata on the 12th haps, than the shock The church of St. Ge for its beauty and so others, with some for less damaged. The arrival of the Levant mail has put us in possession of advices from Constantinople of the 27th ult. Smyrna of the 29th, and Alexandria of the 26th ult. and Malta of the 5th. Preparations were making in the Ottoman capital for hostilities, and Riza Kauli Khan, who commands the Persians, had had a skirmish with the governor of Soleimania, in which he had been worsted. The English and Russian governments had offered their mediation without effect. It was officially notified to the Persian consul, on the RIOTS of a seriou 25th ult. that he and his countrymen would not be week in August at an allowed to remain more than 15 days at Constantino-rines, commenced by ple. On the same day Ali pacha was publicly dis- there in search of em missed from the grand council, and has been suc- rage on finding none. ceeded by Raouf pacha. It would appear from the completely at the me Augsburg Gazette of the 12th inst. that the mani- owning that their saf festo of the schah of Persia against Turkey cuts of ance. The rioters so all hope of an amicable arrangement between those and Corkonian faction two countries. At a recent deliberation of the divan of the magistrates at it was resolved to appoint the uncle of the reigning at length to rally the schah, and brother to the late Abbas Mirza, general- of the crew of the st lissimo of the army. This personage, who has re- persing the riotors, ta peatedly appealed to the European powers, for aid to marched in triumph enable him to recover his throne, has lived for some tion all but 85 of ther time past in retirement in Asia Minor. the leaders were conf CHINA. he housing of such as regiments. By command of major general Scott. manders of forts will r of that department, ssistance that may be 8th regiment of infany brevet, for gallantry Indians, to date from vices as commander of 5, of the 3d regiment of el by brevet, for gallant ses in the war against ■ November, 1840, and bruary 1, 1841. he 8th regiment of inel by brevet, for geneagainst the Florida Innilitary operations and of prisoners, to date the 1st regiment of ar-t, for gallant and merigainst the Florida In36. the 4th regiment of arfor gallant conduct on al efficiency in the war date from January 27, of the 6th regiment of revet, for gallantry and inst the Florida Indians, 837. of the quartermaster's brevet, from the 25th of en he received the wound -ing. of the 1st regiment of ff, July 7, 1838, to be try and good conduct in a Indians, to date from Lee, of the ordnance degiment of artillery,) to lantry and good conduct da Indians, to date from R. JONES, adjutant general. GENERAL ORDERS-NO. 57. Head quarters of the army, adj't genl's office, and storekeepers, åt Washington, Aug. 27, 1942. The major general commanding the army has received the following order, which is published for the information and government of all concerned: War department, Aug. 26, 1842. The fourth section of the act of congress, entitled "an act respecting the organization of the army: for other purposes," approved August 23, 1842, pro-receive as pay, or emolum vides that within one month after the passage of the act, the offices of three paymasters, two surgeons, and ten assistant surgeons, shall be abolished, and that number of paymasters, surgeons, and assistant surgeons, shall be discharged by the president. The remote distance of many of the officers, renders it necessary that the persons to be disbanded should be designated as soon as practicable, that they may not be embarrassed in rendering their accounts for services beyond the time prescribed by the act. The difficulty of discharing the duty thus enjoined by law, has been anxiously felt. Many meritorious officers must necessarily be laid aside, not from any demerit of their own, but simply because the public no longer requires their services. As a guide in the performance of that duty, authentic information has been collected from official sources, and an impartial judgment has been formed without reference to any other considerations than such as regarded the best interests of the service. And in the designation of those whose lot it is to retire, it is to be distinctly understood that nothing is to be inferred derogatory to their fame or worth. The president therefore directs that the following named officers be disbanded and honorably discharged from the army of the United States from and after the 23d day of September next, when they will receive the three months' additional pay provided by the act; viz: in dollars per annum, besides ed and occupied as such, a to be thus employed is her all other offices of militar abolished, and discontinue day of October, and the shall be allowed three mor pay and emoluments to wh on that day. And none of and no officers at the arm ever shall hereafter receive or any compensation or c stipulated pay, in money, provided for and occupied Sec. 3. And be it further commissary general of pur commissary of purchases, hereby abolished, and the after be performed by the master's department, with clerks now attached to the shall be authorized by the der such regulations as sh said secretary, under the sa the U. States. Sec. 4. And be it further mouth after the passage of inspector general, of three and ten assistant surgeons o Abraham A. Massias and Charles Mapes, payished, and that number of masters in the army, there being now one vacancy the office of paymaster. P. Maxwell, surgeon, there being now one vacan- S. R. Arnold, W. T. Leonard, B. W. Woods, C. W. The disbanded paymasters, surgeons and assistant The paymasters above mentioned will close their accounts without delay. J. C. SPENCER. By command of Major General Scorr. L. THOMAS, ass't adj't gen. AN ACT respecting the organization of the army, and for other purposes. assistant surgeons, shall be dent; and they shall be allo addition to the pay and emol be entitled at the time of th Sec. 5. And be it further e person may be employed by der the direction of the se time as may be necessary, t facture of iron cannon at th such cannon may be made u United States, whose pay a exceed those of a major of he shall be so employed, to priations for armament of f services rendered in such s first day of March, eighteen under the authority of the w compensation shall be allow Sec. 6. And be it further e Be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives authorized to be allowed to of the United States of America in congress assembled, mander-in-chief, and to each That hereafter, and so soon as the reduction can be ing a separate post, by the a effected as herein provided, each company of dra- teen hundred and ninety-sev goons shall consist of the commissioned officers asing officers of each separate ■, captain of the 3d regi-now provided by law, and of four sergeants, four cor-sixteen, eighteen hundred a the following! To the colonels or other officers commanding military geographical departments; We To the major general commanding the army, and sy mound, enclosing the body of the tomb. It is de- sels should have arrived in the meantime, would pro to every officer commanding in chief a separate army, signed to cover these pyramids entirely with marble, ceed with them to adjust the difficulties at Tangier actually in the field; To the generals commanding the eastern and wes-cers who have died or been killed in Florida, in ad- braltar at the last dates, August 4. on which will be placed the names of all other offi- Mr. Mullowney, the new consul, remained at Gi tern geographical divisions; dition to those deposited beneath. A meeting was to be held at St. Louis on the 13th and opposed to the late order of the general govern-war Preble. He died at Smyrna on the 27th of July, THE PREBLE-DEATH inst., composed of those friendly to Gen. Gaines, regret to learn from the Mediterranean the death of OF CAP. VOORHEES. ment affecting his command. Capt. RALPH VOORHEES, Commander of the sloop of day. His remains were followed to the grave by a of bilious fever which terminated fatally the seventh large body of officers from the French, Danish, and Austrian vessels in port, and the seamen and mirines of the Preble-which, is now under command of lieut. J. P. Boyle, and was to sail early in August, Mahon about the middle of September. thence to Tripoli and Tunis, and expected to reach touching at Athens, some of the Grecian Islands, To the commandant of each permament or fixed post, garrisoned with troops, including the superintendent of the military academy at West Point, who is regarded as the commandant of that post. Approved, August 23, 1842. AUTHENTIC: R. JONES, adju.gen. THE ARMY UNDER THE NEW LAW. re-organization of the army having become a law, The bill for the the following statement will prove interesting. It shows the present standing of the army, and how it will compare with the establishment of the last four years. This statement is of the number of officers and men in 1841. Commissioned officers, Eight regiments of infantry, each containing non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, 904, Four regiments of artillery, each containing 712 non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, Two regiments of dragoons, each containing Total force, 735 7,235 2,846 Gen Eustis, of the U. S. army, commands the sixth military department, comprising the states of Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine. His head quarters are at Portland. THE NAVY. ING THE NAVY DEPARTMENT. 1st section abolishes the ult. In scouring the Gulf of Mexico, and CarriThe U. S. brig Boxer, was at Pensacola on the 18th bian sea, the officers and crew had become sickly. GENERAL NOTICE. 2d Sec. authorises the president with the advice subject of docks and navy yards, are to be addressAll communications to the department upon the Navy department Sept. 2, 1842. of the senate, to appoint a captain in the naval ser-ed to Commodore L. Warrington, chief of the Buvice, as chief of the bureau of ordnance and hydro-reau. graphy, who is to receive $3,500 per annum in lieu of all other compensation; also to appoint "agraphy, are to be addressed to Commodore W. M. Those upon the subject of ordnance and hydroskilful naval constructor" as chief of the bureau of Crane, chief of the bureau. 1,430. construction, equipment and repairs; and also a chief 260 of the bureau of provisions and clothing; each to receive $3,000 per annum; and from the surgeons of gery, with a salary of $2,500. the navy, a chief of the bureau of medicine and sur Under the new law the army will be composed of 12,506 Commissioned officers, 712 Eight regiments of infantry, each composed of non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates. 510, 4.080 Four regiments of artillery, each composed of non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, 660, 2,640 Two regiments of dragoons, each composed of non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, 660, Cadets, Sec. 4. authorises the secretary of the navy to appoint the following clerks for the office of the secretary of the navy. 1. A chief clerk, salary $2,000; a registering clerk $1,400; three recording clerks, $1,000 each; one corresponding clerk $1,500; two assistant do. $1,200 each; one warrant clerk $1.200; one miscellaneous clerk $800. And also, for the bureau of docks and yards, one For the bureau of construction, &c., one assistant 3,152 208 178 3,561 For the bureau of ordnance and hydrography, one draughtsman $1.000; one clerk $1,200; and two others $1,000 each. For the bureau of medicine and surgery, one of the secretary of the navy--their orders to be con- HONORS TO THE DEAD. of the 20th Aug. says: The burial of Major F. L. The St. Augustine News Dade's martyr'd dead, and those officers and soldiers who have died in Florida, took place on Monday last. So solemn and interesting an event excited on the part of our citizens the liveliest sympathy and feeling, and afforded them by joining in with the mi-pensation not to exceed $700 each. litary, the heartfelt satisfaction of commingling their Sec. 6. Each bureau to have a messenger-comtears in union with those who had assembled to pay chief clerk of each bureau. All letters to the buthe last sad duties of love to their fallen comrades.reau, on the business thereof, to be free. Sec. 7. The franking privilege extended to the At half past 10, a gun was fired from the battery in front of the green, by a detail of 3d artillery under board, to be properly distributed amongst the bulieutenant Churchill; when the mayor and council, reaus; $3,500 appropriated for stationery, account Sec. 8. Books, papers, and accounts of the navy the masonic fraternity, and St. Augustine City books, &c., under direction of the secretary of the Guards, capt. P. R. Lopez. proceeded to the St. Sebastian bridge, to await the arrival of the remains. navy. In a short time, the melancholy wail of music was for clerks in the office of secretary of the navy, naheard in the distance--the bright glitter of arms was vy commissioners, &c., together with such additional Sec. 9. Unexpended balances of appropriations seen glancing among the deep green of the woods, sum as may be necessary to carry this law into effect" apand the wagons covered with the stars and stripes,propriated therefor. containing all that was of the honored dead, moved slowly onward. It was indeed a brilliant, a melan same can be done without detriment to the public choly spectacle. On arriving at the public square, service, appoint, with their consent, officers or the Sec. 10. The secretary of the navy shall, "if the the cortege wheeled to the right, and proceeded up navy, not above the grade of lieutenants, to perform George street, continued down St. Francis street, the duties of any clerkship created by this act (exwhen moving up Marine street they were brought to cept as herein otherwise provided), who shall rethe spot appropriated for interment, the garden of ceive each for their services not more than nine hunSt. Francis' Barracks; the procession under the dred dollars per annum, including their regular pay orders of Major Belknap, 8th infantry; Captain and rations; but the appointment of any officer in the Gwynne, 8th infantry, commanding the escort; navy to any of the offices or clerkships in this act Lieut. A. T. Lee, acting adjutant. in the service. shall in no manner whatever interfere with his grade The remains were removed from the funeral train amid the firing of minute guns, and the religious services were performed by the rev. Mr. Waters, the rev. Henry Aztell and Mr. John Beard, esq. Lody on the dead was pronounced by Dr. W. WhiteA mohurst, esq. of the masonic fraternity. Half hour guns were fired until sun-set, closing the solemnities of the day. president of the U. States, or the secretary of the The tombs, three in number, erected by the troops The U. S. ship of the line Columbus, Capt. W. A. teranean, where she will be the flag ship of the Spencer, sailed from Boston Aug. 29, for the Medisquadron. Besides commissioned officers, she has a 165 ordinary seamen; 128 landsmen; 48 first class crew of 774 souls; viz. 63 petty officers; 250 seamen; bus has generally been called a poor sailer. From boys; 58 apprentices; and 62 marines. The Colum fault appeared on Monday. She went to sea in fine the ships afloat in Boston harbor, The Boston Evening Journal says that Com. Mortis "Dear ----- We had here a few days since the Intosh from Norfolk via St. Thomas. She arrived American sloop of war Falmouth, commander Mcremained here two days for the purpose of allowing ford, esq. and son, on their way to Bogota. They on the 8th, and brought as passengers Wm. M. Blackfrom the United States to the court of Bogota, and from his gentlemanly address must command retleman has lately been appointed charge d'affairs Mr. B. and the officers to visit Caraccas. This genspect from the uncouth Granadians. consequently, when we secured this for two days, it was no more than duty to celebrate the event, which visited our waters since the "John Adams," in 1833; "This is the first American vessel of war that has we did to admiration. were received with very marked attention. Indeed and the U. S. ships Falmouth, and Ontario, and the every quarter of an hour though the day, in honor of [N. Orleans Picayune, Aug. 17 |