rrived at Campeachy to take command of the forces, was received with
great enthusiasm. The Indians have recently sustained several bloody
defeats, and are evidently very much discouraged. In their endeavor to
take by assault the town of Bacalar, they were received with such a
heavy fire by the garrison, that they were utterly routed, and the river
was choked up by their dead bodies, while the whites suffered only a
trifling loss.

There is little news of interest from Central America. A mule-track, or
transit-road as it is called, has been made from Rivas de Nicaragua to
the Gulf of San Juan del Sur: and the line from New-York to San
Francisco is expected to be completed by the 17th of July. The subject
of a new Constitution is engaging public attention in Honduras. A
violent earthquake was experienced in the State of Costa Rica, on the
morning of the 18th of March. A great amount of property was destroyed
in the cities of San Jose, Heredia, and Barba.

WEST INDIES.

In Cuba, the fears of an invasion, with which the island has been
agitated for three months past, appear to have subsided. A number of
arrests have been made, but no revolutionary preparations have been
discovered. Several prisoners have been convicted of disaffection to the
Government, and are to be sent to Spain for safekeeping. Mr. Christopher
Madan, who voluntarily delivered himself up to the authorities, has been
banished to Spain, and condemned to pay his share of the damages done by
Lopez at Cardenas.

The Jamaica House of Assembly was prorogued by the Governor on the 23d
of May; the Governor made a long speech on the occasion. The cholera
still lingers in the island, and appears in several localities which
have been hitherto exempt.

The island of Hayti is tranquil for the present. The proposition of the
U.S. Commissioner. Mr. Walsh, in connection with the French and English
Consuls, for a ten years' truce with the Dominicans, was rejected by the
Haytian Government. The Emperor has since addressed a proclamation to
the former Government, proposing the appointment of delegates on both
sides, to negotiate terms of peace. Prince Bobo, who, in consequence of
having been engaged in a conspiracy against the Emperor, had fled to the
mountains with a few adherents, has not been captured.

SOUTH AMERICA.

An insurrection broke out in Santiago, the capital of Chili, on the 20th
of April. It was occasioned by excited political feeling, growing out