ich has been constructed at a cost of $320,000. The dredging is
to be continued next season; and it is expected that by July the channel
will be 150 feet wide, and of adequate depth. By a new regulation of the
Post Office Department, all newspapers pass free between Canada and the
adjoining lower Provinces. The seat of Government has been changed four
times in 11 years. In 1840 it was at Toronto; next year the union of the
Provinces having been effected, it was at Kingston. From 1843 to 1849 it
was at Montreal. Toronto then became the capital; and now it has moved
to Quebec, under a pledge to come back at the expiration of four years.
Respecting the final result of the late movements of Carvajal in Mexico
it is not easy to form a conclusion, as the accounts are very
contradictory. Notwithstanding his recent discomfiture, it seems to be
believed that in the present distracted and impoverished condition of
Mexico, he may succeed. General Aragua had arrived at Matamoras with 80
men, with several pieces of artillery and one mortar, to reinforce
General Avalos. General Carvajal had not more than five or six hundred
men. The Mexican troops in Matamoras number 2,000.

From Nicaragua we learn, that on the 19th of November General Munoz, his
officers, and twenty-seven Americans, were captured by General Chamorro,
and committed to prison. If this intelligence is true, there is an end
of the war in that quarter.

From South America intelligence is as usual confused and unsatisfactory.
By way of England we have dates from Montevideo to the 12th Oct. The war
in the Banda Oriental was terminated. Oribe had retreated to his country
house at Rinton. The Argentine forces were reported to have joined
Urquiza. The Orientals had joined Gen. Garzon. A Provisional Government
was talked of. The chief results had been effected without bloodshed.

In Chili, the rebel army of 13,000 men, commanded by Carrera and
Arteaga, was met by 850 Government troops at Petorca, about forty
leagues from Santiago, on the 14th of October. They fought three hours,
and the result was the total defeat of the former, with a loss of 70
killed, 200 wounded, and 400 prisoners, including 36 officers. Carrera
and Arteaga have not been taken. The Government army, under Colonel
Vidaure, lost 15 killed and 15 wounded. 400 of the Government troops had
gone by sea to join Bulnes's army; the remainder had sailed for
Coquimbo, so that the affair in the North may be considered