of 33,425;
Missouri 681,547, an increase of 297,845; Ohio 1,981,940, an increase of
462,473; Kentucky 993,344, an increase of 213,516; Indiana, 990,000; New
Jersey 490,763, an increase of 117,874; and Wisconsin, 305,556. The
entire population of the United States in 1850 is estimated at
23,500,000.

A warrant for the arrest of Governor Quitman of Mississippi, for
participation in the Cuban Expedition, was issued by Judge Gholson in
New Orleans, early in January. Governor Quitman at first resisted the
authority, but afterwards resigned his office as Governor, and on the
seventh of February reached New Orleans, under arrest. He appeared in
court, and gave bail for future appearance, asking a speedy trial.

Several diplomatic appointments have recently been made. Hon. Richard H.
Bayard, who was appointed Charge d'Affaires to Belgium, has departed for
his mission. Hon. Robert C. Schenck, of Ohio, has been appointed
Minister to Brazil, and Hon. J. S. Pendleton, of Virginia, Charge
d'Affaires to New Grenada. The Chevalier Gomez, Special Envoy to Rome
from the states of Guatemala and San Salvador, has arrived at
Washington, and assumed, provisionally, the office of Charge from those
states. He has addressed a letter to the Secretary of State in relation
to the present condition of the Central American States.

General Mosquera, ex-President of New Grenada, is now travelling in this
country, and was lately in Washington, where he received distinguished
attentions. General Paez, the distinguished exile from Venezuela, is
also in Washington. Dr. Frank Taylor, of Pennsylvania, who has recently
returned from Constantinople and Asia Minor, has received letters from
the illustrious Kossuth, addressed to the Secretary of State, and
soliciting the intervention of the United States with the Turkish
Government, to procure the release of himself and his compatriots, and
their transportation to the United States. Mr. Webster immediately
complied with the request, and has dispatched instructions to Mr. Marsh,
the American Minister at Constantinople, to procure from the Turkish
Government the release of the Hungarians.

The frigate St. Lawrence has sailed from New-York for Southampton, with
articles for the World's Fair. She carries out between four and five
hundred articles, embracing nearly all branches of manufacture, and the
principal mineral and agricultural productions of the country. The
contributions are in charge of Charles F.