Star. — London, England, 1831-06-14 00:00:00

9 . t g 1 I .. 1 t A 1 0 1 i 11, i i S: l I , 4 i ' . l' 4 . -. r i , 1 1 • 1 1 I 1 1.11 FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. GERMAN PAPERS RECEIVED THIS DAY. VtL.XxA, JuN I.—The appearance of the :.I.olera in two circles of Gallicia has induced our ;overnment to adopt the inelsures which are the best calculated to effect the cure of the patients, and to prevent the spreading of the disorder into the inteiior of the monarchy. There is the more reason to hope that this measure will be as effectual as the :atonality seems already to abate, in the Jews' (platter, at Lemberg, where 18 persons fell vic• tiros to it in a few days. Our letters from War paw are to the 27th; Baron Von Munch Balleng hausen is still here, aid will not return to Franc tMt for some weeks. The number of the Gar -I;sts here daily increases. By the arrival of new couriers, wo leatn that Lieut. Field Marshal Zucohi having been brought before a Court Mar tial at Gratz, has been condemned to death, but pardoned by the Emperor. aggression. Notwithstanding this commucation, the French man-of-war proceeded to capture the Por tuguese brig Constante, which came from Para. In these disagreeable circumstances, the King, our sovereign, has been pleased to order the above par ticulars to be communicated to the Royal Board of Trade, and that it may cause the same to be duly published. His • Majesty hoping that such occurrences will shortly cease, through the means already ndopted, and such others as his Majesty may deem expedient, all which your Excellency will make known to the Tribunal. Palace of Quilts, May 30, 1831. Viscount DE SANTAREM. To the Marquess Steward of the Household. Which the same Royal Board orders to be made public by this present. Lisbon, May 31, 1831. (Signed) JOZE ACCURSIO DAS NEVIS. —Lisbon Gazette, June 1. (The Gazettes of the 2d and 4th contain no fur ther particulars.) • OATMEAL, WHEAT, AND PEAS. VICTUALLING OFFICE, June 14, 1831. rr E CO itiMISSIONERS for VICTUAL JL LING his MAJESTY'S NAVY, le. do hereby give Notice, That on FRIDAY, the 17th Instant, they will be ready to receive Tenders in writing (sealed up), and treat for the supply of the following Articles, to be delivered into his 313jesty's Victualling Stores at Deptford, viz. ARTICLC. QUANTITY. ?MOD OF DILITRIIY. 20 Tons thereof by the 10th of July Oatmeal 50 Tons next, and the re mainder by the 51st of that month. One half of each Wheat, Red ... 2,500 Quarters by the 20th day of Ditto %Vhite 500 Quarter. July next, and the (Weighing 60 lbs to the Bushel), remainder by the Peas ... 500 Quarters 20. h of August fol lowing. Samples of each of the above mentioned Articles must be produced by the party tendering. The Conditions of the Contracts may be seen at this Office. Each Tender must specify the price in words at length, and be delivered before One o'Clock on the Day ap pointed; and the Person who makes the Tender, or some Person on his behalf, must attend to answer when called for. M. WALLER CLIFTON. BERLIN. I/I I .►UNE 6.—By an official proclamation it is de ( iared, that till further orders bills of health granted in Russia, Poland, or Galicia, will not exclude travellers and merchants from the quarintine regu -I;.it!ons. This measure is rendered the more im perative in consequence of the policy said to have been adopted by the authorities of Riga, who, on the breaking out of the cholera there, considered it their duty to send for instructions to St. Peters burg, before publishing the fact. The consequence was, as is well known, that many ships left the harbour of Riga with the infection on board, and yet provided with the regular documents generally granted to vessels leaving a perfectly healthy place. Several travellers arriving from Danzig, have been obliged to perform quarantine at the gates of this city. LISBON MAILS. (RECEIVED Tills DAY.) LISBON, MAY 31. ROYAL BOARD OF TRADE. F DICT. The Royal Board of Trade, Agriculture, Manu factures, and Navigation of these kingdoms, has issued the following notice : MOST ILLUSTRIOUS EXCELLENT SENIIOR,--- M. Cassas, cl.arged with the Consulate of France, who lately resided in this capital, having addressed to his Government reclamations, which at the same time that they were not in the attributes of . hip official character, were entirely contrary to the plainest and repeated declarations of his govern ment, that it would not interfere in the internal affairs of other countries, and which neither the law of nations nor common usage, ever authorized persons in such offices to make it. was replied to him that as be bad r.ot the character established by the law of nations to make communications of that nature— which exceeded the limits of the Consular Office, the Government of his Majesty found it impossible for these reasons to give an answer to them. Not withstanding this answer, founded on principles that were hitherto never disputed in any country, the said Consul resolved to withdraw, and set out for France, summoning the French residing in this kingdom to accompany him, to which only a few agreed ; most of them remaining tranquil under the safeguard of the laws and of the authorities, which never fail to protect foreigners who peaceably gain their livelihood. Several French ships of war, viz. two frigates, two corvettes, and a brig, having ap peared on the coast of their kingdom, the Com mander of that squadron sent a despatch to his Majesty's Government, in which he made the fol lowing demands :- 1. That Edmund Polineano Bonhome should be set at liberty, and the sentence pronounced upon him annulled ; because the application of the pu nishment pronounced by that sentence was consi dered as an insult to France. 2. The dismissal of the Judges who pronounced that sentence, and the official publication of the act annulling it. 3. An indemnity of 20,000 francs to the said Bonhome. 4. That Claude Sauvinet, declared to be a natu ralized Portuguese, who had violated the laws of the kingdom, and was sentenced by an Extraordi nary Commission to 10 years banishment to Africa, should be set at liberty. 5. An indemnity of 6,000 francs to each of the two Frenchmen, Gambey and Vallon, arbitrarily arrested at Oporto ; and one of 3,000 franca to another Frenchman, named Dupont, who was im prisoned at Lisbon one year, and all three expelled nm Portugal by a sentence from which no culpa bility results. 6. The indemnity of 10,000 francs, previously claimed by M. Cassas, for the engraver Dubois, for the injury done him during his confinement in prison. 7. An indemnity of 20,000 francs for the Frenchmen who have already left Lisbon, and for the freight of the ship Jumeata ; and an indem nity, the amount of which shall be fixed in the se qael, for those who, having remained at Lisbon since the departure of the Consul, have suffered any injury. 8. The strict observance in future of the privilege of the French, not to be liable to arrest, except by order of the judge conservator of the privileged nations. Immediately after the French Consul had made demands, which he was incompetent to make, his Majesty's Government applied to the allies of the Crown of Portugal, with whom there existed dis positions of constitutional law and solemn treaties, in order to treat of this business in a manner suit able to the honour of those kingdoms, a proceed ing received by the law of nations on such basis eases, accordingly an answer was returned to the said commander, that the Portuguese Government not having any person at Paris authorised to treat on such a subject, and M. Cassas also not being autlurised by any diploma communicated to the Portuguese Government, the government of his Majesty found it impossible to come to an understanding with the French Government by any of the above. means ; but desiring,, however, to come to a decision, it had resolved to treat immediately, by means of the allies of the Crown of Portugal; and that, under these circumstances, it would not be conformable either to motives of delicaty, or to the nature of transaction, to give the categorical answer required. That hid Majesty's Govern , that he would totnmunicate this answer possible to his Government, and that any measures which he might employ, contrary spirit of this statement, would not fail to be by all nations, as an act of unprovoked THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. TUESDAY, JUNE 14. Yesterday, the French packet Le Courrier ar rived at Dover from Calais, bringing his Excel lency Lord Ponsonby, Lady Ponsonby, and suite. From his Excellency being accompanied by his Secretary Mr. ABE RC ROMBIE, and his domestic establishment, it is concluded that his Lordship's mission to tqe Belgian Congress is at an end. It is difficult to say whether it is more mean and cowardly, or more unwise and insulting, in the five great powers, to take it on themselves to dic tate, as they have done, to the Belgians. Are mankind their property ? Cannot small states freely adjust their own differences; and is it to be tolerated that an holy alliance should interpose and throw its weight into one scale ? Was it in this confi dence that the King of HOLLAND presumed to trifle with, and insult his Belgic subjects ? Did be know that his power thus aided was superior to justice, and that if his people resented his conduct, the Holy Alliance would protect him against his people? Is this really the abject condition of the people of Europe ? Further, is this malign influence to be exerted only in favour of Courts ? If affected for the sake of Peace, why is it not exerted also in behalf of Poland ? If these Powers are true Minis ters of Peace, have they not an equal mea sure for People and for Courts ? But, alas, they are known—they are guaged—they are exactly appreciated by the world; and their actions confirm the judgment. The Belgians have been only too passive—their virtue alone has put them in danger—they have been like a flock of sheep, referring their welfare to wolves. Com mon sense declares that they must at length exert themselves, or they are lost. They must do as the Poles have done, and GOD and victory will be friend them. Their cause is that of justice and liberty; and the Printing Press, and the honest feelings of human naturg, will assure their ultimate triumph. Let them despise the Protocols, whet their swords, and trust to their courage. They re sisted the universal Spanish monarchy for 30 years. _ _ _ We have feared from the first that a reference to the five powers—a majority of whom are sworn enemies to every thing liberal—would prove a snare to a well intended people, seeking their civil rights. The Moniteur puts forth a Jesuitical article of the French Ministry, which ive gave in yesterday's STAR, claiming merit for having ob tained the recognition of Belgic independence ; but what would have been the demerit of the new French Government, if it had not done thus much ? We think, however, that combined as this unavoidable duty was with conditions, and per plexed by the protocols of an holy alliance, it would have been more advantageous to have allowed the Belgians to overrun Brabant and Holland, and take Luxemburg, Limberg, Maestritch, and the left Bank of the Scheldt, which they would have done in a few weeks, if France, by hypocritical friend ship, bad not induced them to sheath their swords. France now desires to have a feeble neighbour, and proscribes boundaries to Belgium, tending to sever those who have a common cause. Human nature cannot, however, recognize this diplomatic parcelling of countries, without regard to the pa triotism of inhabitants. Austrian Belgium was an appendage, not a State. By Belgium all the world understand more than even the Belgians claim ; and it is impolitic to concede to the Dutch a foot of territory to the south of the Maes, and monstrous to propose to give them the left of the Scheldt. Nor was the mediation un dertaken on the basis of Belgium in 1791 ; and it is insulting to bring that basis forward. We hope the Belgians will find supporters of their just cause in the new British Parliament. We hope the new Elections in France will render the Government more worthy of a great people ; and, in fine, we hope the Holy Alliance will be baffled in this deep-laid scheme to compromise the honest Belgic Family. Before we conclude these observation, we of the STAR have a word to say for ourselves to the people of England. They ought to be apprized that the STA R is not one of the elect of the present French Ministry. Can we have a prouder recommendation to this enlightened nation ? It seems that in the estimation of MM. PERIER and SEBASTIAN', the journals of London most worthy of their praise, are the Times I the Courier ! and the Globe ! Now we are per suaded that either of these papers would rather have given 10001. than have .suffered any compli ment from the PtalEß ministry. For our parts, we would as leave have been praised by MM. POLIGN AC and PEtraoNNET ! We have im pugned their foreign policy towards the Poles, the Belgians, and thu Italians. We have questioned their avidity to prosecute the spirit and principles which gave them power—and we have held up their inter ference in the pending elections as treason to the French people. We wish the junior branch of the Bourbons to do their duty to the cause which placed them on the throne ; and not to compromise France and themselves, by fears of Austria and NAPOLEON 11. In these principles w•e speak the sentiments of the British people, and we are proud that we have done our duty in such way as to be thus distin guished by MM. PERIER and SEBASTIAN! ! PARLIAMENT assembles to-day, and the cere monies of taking Oaths, choosing a Speaker, &c. will employ two or three days. The speech of our gracious and patriotic KING, will then give tone to its proceedings; and the members will doubtless feel that the eyes of the civilized world are upon them, and that their deliberations and decisions will be subject-matter for one of the most inte resting chapters of British History. They will no doubt do their duty in regard to the Reform Bill; and, in that respect, justify those hopes of the nation, on which depend its future destinies—freedom, prosperity, and happiness. Never were men placed in a more onerous situation than the Members of this Parliament; and every one of them, who are worthy of a seat in it, must duly feel how much depends on his good intelli gence and his spirit to exert it. The horrible slaughters, and the still smoking blood and ruins in South Wales and Ireland must, at the moment, be too impressive not to demand a rigorous investigation of the CAUSES of such cala mities, and not to inspire a zealous desire to re move them. No people on earth are, or ever were, more deeply impressed than the British people, with the value of a government ac cording to law, nor more obedient and loyal ; consequently, when outrages take place, there must be strong causes for a deviation from ge neral conduct; and these causes, whatever they be, Parliament alone can remove. In legislating, let them remember, however, that human laws are made for the infirmities of flesh and blood, and British laws for a free people ; and that good laws must be in accordance with fire-side feeling, and not be subservient to theories of political economy. The French System, the Poor Laws and their abused administration, the Game Laws, the cruel laws of Debtor and Creditor, and the defective system for regulating wages of labour, (at once unsatisfactory to workmen and injurious to em ployers), all call for immediate and earnest atten tion. We might enlarge on Taxes, which annoy more than they produce ; on Corn Lime, Currency Ques tions, Foreign Policy, &c. &c. but we have no doubt that all will be done that can properly be done ; and, what is of no small consequence, as soon as possible—for we have a PATRIOT KING, an enlightened Administration, and, thank GOD, a public-spirited Parliament. We shall, in this paper, bring the labours of this expectant legislature before our readers, with the perspicuity which will render them intelligible to the nation, not only in correct abstracts of debates, but in that DAILY ANALYSIS which, in the last Sessions, afforded such general satisfaction. enner to ID mich a trans which was went hoped as soon as p instant meal to the spirit considered, PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE. PARIS, JUNZ 13. We had a little bit of commotion, the night before last and last night, upon the Place du Chatelet, where two or three hundred persons assembled, and were singing the Morsel. hiss; and exclaiming, by way of interlude, " Long live the Republic !" The National Guards were on the alert, and drove the party from the spot; whence they proceeded to the Pantheon, where they commenced a second edition; but afterwards quietly dispersed. Lost night, pretty strong parties of the National Guards paraded the streets, on the sharp look out foe the phantom that seems to cause so much dread in Paris; but this time there was no broken heads, and, therefore, no thaws of a red-ribend. The renewed ay of the Repuilis has moi stened the Gaisetse de Frames to dilate upon it, In one or two lengthy articles, which I send you. The " Repoddie" is quite a standing joke in Paris. There is a adenines of a female on the top of .he column Pastime, and another at the foot, crying out !• the Blue-beard style.—" Ann, deter Ann, tie you we the Republic coming r'-" I see nothing but • cloud of duet, and • hi-coloured flag way. kg in the midit."—" Oh ! for Oon'e *eke, come down sister Anne, for depend upon It, that's the Republic."— However, with all the ridicule, and all the contempt that ap pears to be cast on the Republican party, it certainly ggins ground ; and the bulk of the people are far, very far, from being contented with the present state of things. All seem to agree that some change must, and will take place, and that very soon. Your's, J. L. A telegraphic dispatch from Cherbourg, dated this day, announces the arrival in that port of his Majesty the Em- peter of de Paris. We are assured that the Government is occupied with the means of consecrating the anniversary of the days of July, by a national fete, in which the glorious souvenirs which they bring back, will be ennobled again by a tribute of regrets, offered to the citizens who fell in our memorable revolution.-- lifouiieur. We are authorised to announce that the Russian Go vernment has just renewed the general prohibition, which formerly existed against the subjects of Russia, of travelling or residing in France.—Moniieur. The republic marches in spite of all Prance; and it will triumph notwithstanding ; but that triumph will be its death, for there will be no point of surprise this time; no bankers of millions and of Princely fortune to re-assure in terests. The crisis which will render the Republicans mas. ten of Paris will not be of long duration, all the labour of thirty years of Revolution Is done, then it is no longer to do.—Gazelle de France. Malevolence essays again to torment public opinion, by announcing troubles which have not taken place, and by spreading reports of war which nothing can justify. It is said that the King was returning to Paris; that already the Minister of War had returntd ; that in fact a division of French troops had received the order to march. There is no truth in all this. We are perfectly certain that the MI. nieter of War has never thought of returning, and that the King pursues, in the midst of public enthusiasm, his jour. ney. Letters from Verdun inform or that his Majesty passed a magnificent review, and that 24,000 troops had received the order to assemble at Strasburg, in order also to be passed in review by the King. The King of Wurtemburg and the Princes of Baden will, it is said, be present at the military fete.--Ifeesager. The Gazelle de France sometimes adopts the mystified style of the Quolidienne. The following is a brilliant ape. eimen of the metaphorical:—lt regards the revolution of July "as the act of a supernatural Intervention, u a means employed by GOD evtn, in order at last to disentangle chaos, and put every thing in its place. It Is necessary that society should perish in order to be re-born; and GOD appears to have sent the second revolution as he sent to men of former times the deluge, In order to regererate us by a second ex perience. But already the waters lower, the wind of the tempest is calmed ; promontories Bunk in the tester begin to show themselves. The time Is not far off when the white messenger will show itself dressed with the olive branch, the symbol of reconciliation." There was spread yesterday on 'Change the most absurd reports. We bare power to affirm with certainty that the most complete tranquillity reigns at this moment at Mets, at Strasburg, at Marseilles, in the West, upon the Belgian fronticr,—..everywhere, in one word, where, according to the news which was spread about, troubles had burst out.— Massager des Chambers. The Moni'cur (says the National) la silent until now, and will continue to be silent, upon the affairs of Belgium. If it were to avow the project of the ministry to send an army against the Belgian patriots, it would raise France in one universal cry of indignation. The Government hopes that silence will appear sufficiently threatening to the Bel gians; but they will not doubt the determination of our Government in their respect, and that will render them more easy. But the Belgians cannot believe in such folly on the part of the Ministry of the 13th of March ; they know that the tricoloured flag will always be their ally, when even the Ministry shall be their enemy. Better would It be, then, that the commission of writersof police were charged to give explanations; for they disturb France, and they do not frighten Belgium.—La Quotidiennc POLAND. KONINGSBIIO 9 MAY 29.—Lithuania is delivered to all the rage of barbarians; they appear to have taken the resolution of annihilating, as far as they an, the population, of trans porting the rest to Siberia, and of repeopling the country with Kahnueks; they ill-treat those who would remain tran quil; they treat them as suspected, pillage their property, and when they Sy into the forests to escape the persecutions, their property is confiscated, their wives and children are rendered responsible, and they are slaughtered wherever they are found ; in short, there is no atrocities which are not put in practice against these unfortunate victims of the most horrible despotism. They are burnt alive—drawn at the tails of horses—forced by torments to put themselves to death. Such is the game of that horde of savages, which bell has vomited forth. It requires a miracle to save Poland, for crushed by Russia, oppressed by the Prussian authorities, betrayed in the most odious manner by Austria, abandoned shamefully by the French Cabinet, wanting money, ammu nition, and provisions, she has no other resources than the insurrections of the ancient Polish provinces. It is this mi racle which is accomplishing at this moment : how is it that the French Ministry has done nothing P One single word would have arrested the crimes which tyranny has committed every where with impunity ; it was so easy for your Go vernment, without waging war, to have become the arbiter of Europe. BELGIUM. If we were to reflect attentively. we should find that it is not much in the interest of France that Belgium should obtain the fbnress and the province of Maestricht. If, in fact, the Cohference of London adjudged Limburg to Bel gium, it would be with the condition that the fortress had a Prussian garrison. The -Belgian Government bad itself made the proposition to the Conference. Moreover, the efforts of Austria, of Russia, and Prussia, who in all that affair acted darkly, according to the views of Russia, tended that the new Belgian State should form part of the Germanic Confederation. If Limbourg must be given to It, it will be but upon that condition. Or, it is easy to see, that Prussia and the Germanic Confederation, which holdelready a double gate of Belgium and of France in the fortress of Luzern Bourg, would again have a second gate by the possession of Maestricht and the frontier of the Meuse, the only barriers of Belgium towards the North. In case of war, an army Prussian Germanic, debouching at once by these two points, would invade in two days' time all the kingdom of Belgium, which would cover us by the interposition of its neutral ter ritory. If, on the contrary, Maestricht and Umbourg should remain to Holland, the inconvenience, in ease of Continental war, would be much weakened, and for this reason--it be comes more and more probable, that if a war took place, Drgiand would be neutral, or in agreement with us. Hol. land, a country of maritime commerce, would be compromised in a struggle with the superior fleeted Englander of FMCS, and would be constrained to neutrality. It would thee leek twice before making any attempt upon Belgian swifter,, protected by Prance sad Ragland. That territory, and, by emirs coup, the Nathan frostier of France, walla then have more security, if Maestriebt eau the line of the Please were occupied by Hamrd than by Prussia. This 'mei deraUou mast Dot be taxed as polltkel gabs, fir we have erased to make march from in our reasonings, Belgian in terest with French interest.—Message►. SPAIN. °mama, Maw am sorry to inform you, 6.a there is nothing but persecutions to be experienced front the English authorities of this impregnable rock, where we cx. petted, out of humanity's sake, to have met with an asylum from the tyranny of Ferdinand and his sanguinary Captain. General; but every means have been resorted to by them to deliver us up to the power of out most inveterate foes; vcs. sets, and even private dwellings, are searched in the most rigid manner, as the name of a Constitutional sounds to them worse than that of a pirate or common murderer. Tor. rijos Quirogs, and other chiefs, have fortunately escaped their treachery and researches; and all those who can are now seeking an asylum at Algiers, where, no doubt, the French will welcome them, as men who have been fighting to rescue their country from bigotry and despotism ought to be received, which, unfortunately, has been denied us here by the representatives of a free nation ; for in Europe there appears nothing but persecution adopted by the au. thoritics, if a man possesses liberal idea*, as he must either be a slave or a traitor; but the day will come, notwithstanding the treatment we have endured from Gr. neral Don, (who is nothing but a complete old dotard entirely influenced by Ferdinand's emissaries) when the km ner of freedom will once more wave in tyrannised Spain.— Let the despot not forget that there is still a brave and pa. triotic Mina (at Bordeaux) who is anxiously watching a fa. vourable opportunity to rescue his country from tyranny and bigotry, for liberty must and will ultimately triumph, not only in Spain but in Portugal, where the sanguinary usur per, Don Miguel, in his palace of °twins, is now tottering with far; for when a monarch will not govern his subjects with equity and liberal institutions, his throne is only main. mined by dread and force, which the people at the first op portunity will throw off the yoke ; but unfortunately for freedom In both countries, the priesthood (who as a matter of course are opposed to every reform) bare toe much in fluence over the minds of the Ignorant, added to the want of a sufficient courage in the inhabitants to declare their consti tutional rights against oppression, they may for a time still remain in bondage"—liberloo o la muerte. P.B.—The T. S. with Spain Is again opened. ROYAL EXCHANGE, ONE O'CLOCK. Consols, which left off yesterday at 821 for the Account, opened at 82k, but soon after they got up to 821 83. TWO O'CLOCK. Consols are, at present, 82i buyers, with a good market. In the Foreign Market little or nothing doing. THREE O'CLOCK. Consols continue steady at 82i for the Ac count. STOCK RicaAwoz.--Bank Stock, 200. Three per Ct. Red. 811 2 11. Three per Ct. Consols, Three and a Half pet Cent. 1818, 891 1. Three and a Half per Cent. Bed. 89} 1. Three and a Half per Cr. New, Four per Ct. 1826, 981. Long Ann. Jan. 1560, 161 1118. Annuities, Oct. 1859, 181. India Stock, —; ditto Bonds, 1 prem. £lOOO Exchequer Bills, 10 12; £5OO ditto, 11 12 ; £lOO and £2OO ditto. 11 12 ; Advertised, 10. Bank for Acct, 200. Consols for Account, 821 I 13 21. A Lisbon Mail arrived this morning. We have accounts that the French Squadron off the Tagus has made six more captures of Portuguese Alps. LIVERPOOL, JUNE 12.—Arrived the Gazello, Smith, from Bahia ; sailed 19th April. Fresh disturbances had broken out at Bahia, in conse quence of the death of a Brazilian in a quarrel with a Portuguese. The mob broke into the wine cel lars and oil stores, and emptied their contents into the streets. PORTSMOUTH, June 13.—His Majesty's ship Volage has arrived from Cherbourg, having landed the Ex-Emperor of Brazil, his family, and suite, together about sixty persons. Singapore papers to January 7, and New York Papers to May 17, received at the North and South American Coffee House, by the London line-of packet ship Hudson, Captain Morgan. All the letters from Germany are written in the greatest alarm, of the dreadful ravages of the Cholera Morbus, fearing it will spread over every part of the Continent. Private letters from Lisbon, by the mail this morning, bring accounts that Don Miguel is ob stinate, and will not comply to the demand of the French government. The greatest activity pre vails in the arsenal of Lisbon, and four frigates are preparing for sea. Don Miguel must cer tainly be mad to think lie can resist the force of the French ; and, no doubt, he will con tinue in that mad delirium until the French send a few bombs into the town. The Singapore papers state the recal from Can ton of the supercargoes, or members of the Select Committee, continue to be the subject of much re mark among those connected with the East India affair. The immediate cause is said to be a dispute with the Chinese, which these gentlemen are sus pected of having brought on, anxious to protect their own private interests, in preference to those of their employers, the East India Company. The private trade at Canton goes on as usual, though the Company is excluded from it. On the 21st inst. a fire broke out on board the Manlius, while in the roads, taking in ber cargo; but assistance being rendered, the flames were extinguished. Ave.—Despatches have been received from Major Burney, tie British resident at Ava. It is stated that the understanding between the Court and the British resident is very gratifying. Accounts from Mexico of the 10th April, state that Ramos had surrendered himself, with 900 meo. The town of Acapulco has been fired by Alvares. The Cenducta had arrived at Vera Cruz with 937,936 dollars. The New York papers, to the 17th May, men tion a dreadful accident of the steam boat Wash ington :—" We are distressed to state, that the steam boat Washington is lost. She left here, on her regular trip to Providence, on Satur day afternoon, with about sixty passengers. Off Stratford Point she came in contact with the steam-boat LivingstQy, at 12 o'clock at night. The Washington was much injured; she filled with water in 45 minutes and went down. All the plug mangers except two are supposed to have got on board the Livingston, and arrived safe yesterday afternoon." THE ADDZESS.--It is said that Sir Charles Lemon, the new member for Cornwall, will either move or second the Address to hls Majesty, on his speeth at the opening of Parliament. A steam vessel has been laid down at Chatham, to be named the Pbcanix ; she will be propelled by a steam-engine of no less than 250 horse power. The length of her deck will be 137 feet, and her breadth 32 feet; and she is inteaded to throw shells of ten inches in diameter.