number were sent to the hospital as they arrived in
Hermanstadt.

Accounts from Siam speak favourably of the
disposition of the young king, who lately succeeded to the
throne, who seems resolved to carry improvements to
the extent of his dominions. Recently his majesty
intimated his desire to allow the European and American
residents a piece of ground for burial purposes. In various
ways the king manifests his good will towards Europeans.
It was generally expected that another English embassy
would visit the country, and the king had intimated his
desire to cultivate the most friendly feelings and to
extend legitimate commerce; but it is also very
confidently stated that the king will offer every discouragement
to a proposed consulate at his capital, as he
wishes foreigners to have only a commercial and not a
political footing in the country.

The intelligence from Buenos Ayres is important.
Urquiza, exasperated, as he asserts, by the demagoguism
of the Chamber of Representatives and the public press,
dissolved the former, gagged the latter, and placed the
town in a state of siege, on the 23rd June. He professes
that he is the firmest friend of liberty; that he has only
had recourse to this step in order to preserve the
Argentine Republic from civil war; and that when the
constitution shall have been established on a firmer
basis, he will resign his dictatorial powers. He calls
himself Provisional Director; and in this capacity he
has summoned the delegates of the States to meet him
during the present month, at Santa Fé, to settle the
constitution and elect a President.

The last accounts from Mexico received at New York
represent the inhabitants as being in a great state of
excitement in consequence of the numerous Indian
depredations throughout that unhappy country.
Emboldened by their successes, the Zacatecas tribe recently
attacked a town within one hundred miles of the city
of Mexico. What makes the matter worse, the government
appears to have no resources left to pay for the
defence of the people.

In the United States considerable excitement has been
caused by a question with the British government
respecting the right of deep-sea fishing on the coast of
our North American Colonies, arising out of the
convention in 1818 between the two governments, whereby
the United States renounced the liberty of fishing
within three miles of the coasts in the limits not
included in the convention. The construction of this
convention has become a subject of dispute. It is
alleged by the British government that for several years
the Americans have been allowed to encroach upon the
best fishing-grounds; and since the accession of the Derby
government to office, Sir John Pakington has
determined to put an end to this encroachment, by sending
a sufficient force to exclude or capture any American
fishing-boats which may transgress the assigned limits.
Already one American fishing-vessel has been captured
in the Bay of Fundy by the British cutter Netley, and
carried into St. John's, New Brunswick. In addition
to the imperial force engaged in the protection of the
fisheries, the colonies have several armed cruisers in
those seas. In the American senate, a resolution,
calling for copies of all correspondence on the subject
since 1818, has been passed, on the motion of Mr. Mason
of Virginia. The resolution has a further direction:

"That the President be also requested to inform the Senate
whether any of the naval forces of the United States have been
ordered to the seas adjacent to the British possessions in North
America, to protect the rights of American fishermen, under
said convention of 1818, since the receipt of the intelligence that
a large and unusual British naval force has been ordered there,
to enforce certain alleged rights of Great Britain under such
convention."

A memorial was in process of signature at Boston,
stating that 2100 vessels and 30,000 seamen are now
engaged in the fisheries, representing property valued
at 12,000,000 dollars; that the people of New England
and their fathers have enjoyed free right to fish in the
now proscribed waters; and that the enforcement of the
new construction put upon the treaty of 1818 will ruin
many families in New England. Therefore the
memorialists pray the President to send a naval force to the
British North American waters, sufficient to protect the
fishermen in their lawful occupation. The British
force off the coasts of our North American colonies
consists of the Cumberland, 70 guns, bearing the flag of
Sir G. F. Seymour; four sloops, one of 12, two others
of 6, and one of 4 guns; a ketch, 3 guns; four
schooners, one of 3 and two of 2 guns; and three
brigantines, two of which carry 2 guns. One
schooner and one brigantine appear to be unarmed.
The senate at Washington received a message from
the President on the 2nd inst., stating that the Mississippi
had been despatched to the fishing-grounds, and
transmitting copies of correspondence respecting the
treaty and the fishery question, which had passed
between 1818 and 1852 inclusive. Mr. Cass moved that
the message be referred to the Committee on Foreign
Relations; and a debate arose thereon; but the subject
was postponed. The speakers were Mr. Cass, Mr. Davis,
and Mr. Hamlin. The tone of their speeches was not
warlike; but they all maintained that the British
construction of the treaty was erroneous. The Mississippi
steamed from New York bay on the 31st July; and the
frigates Savanna and Columbia were to follow. The
debate in the senate was again adjourned on the 5th,
in order that the senators might have ample time for
perusing the correspondence supplied by the President.
Meanwhile, a letter from Commodore Perry, on board
the Mississippi, dated off Eastport, Maine, August 2nd,
had been published. The commodore intimates that
"everything indicated a favourable issue;" but whether
for the Americans, or in the interest of peace, he leaves
doubtful. It was rumoured in Washington that Mr.
Crampton and Mr. Webster had settled the dispute;
and that, at all events for the present, seizures by the
British would not be made, except within three miles of
the coasts.

A dreadful steam-boat accident took place on the
Hudson, on the 28th ult. Two rival steamers, named
the Henry Clay and the Armenia, started from Albany
on the morning of that day, and steamed at a racing
pace down towards New York. Both the boats were
put to the utmost of their speed, and were constantly in
dangerous situations. Even after they had made a
considerable distance, and were heavily laden with passengers,
the racing continued. Suddenly a passenger
observed smoke and smelt fire on board the Henry Clay.
He spoke to the pilot; but that officer, instead of running
the boat instantly on shore, told the passenger to "mind
his own business," and continued his fatal course. In
this way half a mile was gone over; the flames then
burst out very fiercely, and the boat was now run
ashore. "The steamer struck head on," says the New
York Herald; "and as the fire broke out in the centre,
and the breeze blew offshore, those on the stern of the
boat had either to leap into the water or perish in the
flames. One of the passengers who had reached the
shore said, "that as he turned, he saw the flames envelope
a fine lad, standing on the verge of the upper deck,
seemingly uncertain whether to perish by fire or water.
The flames and thick smoke seemed to wrap around
him like a winding-sheet, till he disappeared, and is
now no more. Another gentleman informed us, that
he saw a mother take her infant in her teeth by its
clothes, to have the babe come on top when she arose to
the surface, and approach the edge of the boat to leap
into the water. By a sudden jerk of the boat the child
fell from the grasp of the mother, and also disappeared.
There were several other heartrending incidents
connected with this sad affair. We shall never know all
the sad scenes of this terrible disaster. Most of those
who were saved came to the city in the Armenia and
by the Hudson-river railroad. The down-train stopped
to render assistance, and a special train was sent out to
bring the survivors to town. Several reached the Irving
House in a sad plight—some without shoes, others
without hats, and some without coats, shoes, or stockings."
As far as could be ascertained, at least fifty-six
lives were lost. "Indignation" meetings had been held,
and great excitement prevailed.

Mr. Clay, in his will, has made the following arrangements