naval service for disobedience of orders. Indeed, the Texan navy may
be said to have been disbanded. The people of Galveston thereupon gave
Moore a public dinner, and burnt their president in effigy! The Mexican
government has formally complained to the United States minister at
Mexico, of the inroads of certain citizens of Illinois, Missouri, and
Arkansas, into the Mexican territory. Advices from Buenos Ayres to the
end of June, describe Monte Video as still holding out; and it was
reported in Buenos Ayres that the British commodore would at length
allow Commodore Brown, the Buenos Ayrean commander, to prosecute the
siege of Monte Video by sea, in conjunction with Oribe by land.

A new constitution has been agreed upon by the republic of Ecuador,
establishing the Roman Catholic religion as the state religion, "to the
_exclusion_ of all other worship," and the Bishop of Quito, in an
address to which the people responded favourably, proposed that
"ecclesiastics should be henceforth made sole judges in all questions of
faith; and be invested with all the powers of the extinct tribunal of
the Inquisition!" The bishop then published a "Pastoral Lecter," to
"make known the glad tidings." And yet the people of Ecuador, without
religious freedom, call their country a free republic!

PHILADELPHIA.--The President has returned from his country seat to
Washington, and although some alterations in the cabinet are spoken of,
still the results of the August elections, showing that a majority in
the United States Senate will be Whig, have produced a pause in the
contemplated changes. Indeed, people are beginning to complain, and not
without reason, of such frequent changes in important offices. For
example, within three years there have been three Secretaries of State,
three of War, three of the Treasury, three of the Navy, three
Attorneys-General, and three Postmasters-General. Some of them have
really not had time to learn their duties, and they have been succeeded
by others who knew still less of the duties and responsibilities of
office.

CANADA.

Sir C. Metcalfe has returned to the seat of his government at Montreal.
The emigrants from Great Britain arrived this season at Quebec, up to
the 19th ult., were 18,131; same time last year, 38,159. A few days ago,
a party of Irish labourers, who had received, as they supposed, some
offence from a few Canadians, at Beauharnois, attacked and nearly killed
two respectable old inhabi