The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-04-02 00:00:00

. \ MARRIAGE ACT. bas been erroneously stated, that the "Marriage Art Amendrient Bill" hail . passed into a law. An " Act to render valid certain Marriages," passed during the present Session, hits received the Royal Assent; but the Marriage Act Amendment Bill is now in progless through Parliament. The folloaing is a copy of the Validity Bill" : Winprone by aa het passed In the third year of the Reign of be-present Maje s ty King George the Fourth, intituied "An Act to amend certain Provisions of the Twenty-sixth of @gorge the Second, for the better preventing of clandestine Martieges," it is amourst other things enacted, that no per son shad. from and alter the passing of this Act, be deemed authorized by law to grant any license for the solemnization ot any marriage, except the Archbishops of Canterbury end York, according to the rights now tested lo them, and except Vie several other Bishops within their respectiVe dioceses, tor-the marriageof persons of wheat shall be resident at tltratime within the diocese of the Bishop in whose name such license shall be granted ; and whereas, notwithstand ing such enactment, divers liceeses for marriage have, *sough error, been granted since th e passing of the said Act by or in the name of bodies corpo rate or persons, their officers or surrogates, other than the said Archbishops and iiishops,which bodies corporate or persons, their officers or surrodates, before the passing of the said Act, were or were deemed to be authorized by law to grant such licenses; and divers persoi.s hare been married by virtue or in mist 'Vence of licenses so granted, the validity of which mar - usages is affected by the enactment afo reseld ; and whereas 'it it expedient to remedy the same ; be it enacted by the it . nz's most excellent Majesty, by and with the consent o the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this pre f sent Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same thit. all and every marriages and marriage solemnized by virtue or in consequence of a license granted after the Rem ise of the said Act of the third year of his present Majesty, and before the passing of this Act, by or in the name of a body corporate or person, his or their officer or surrogate, other than the Archbishops ofCanterbury and York, accord ing to the rights vested in them respectively, or the several other Bishops within their respective dioceses, which body eorporetpassine or erson, his or their officers and surrogates, be- fore the person his or their officers and surrogates, be. fore the passing of the said Act, were or were deemed to be authorized by law to grant such licenses, shall be as good rod %slid marriages to all intents and purposes whatsoever, as the same would have been if the said enectmentsrestrain ing the power and authority of granting such licenses had not been made. And be it further enacted, that such bodies corporate and persons as aforesaid, their officer; and surrogates who have granted such licenses as aforesaid since the passing of the ct raid be oA, and the officers and otheits ecincerned therein, shall not r bet held to be liable to airy pains and penalties for or on account of the granting of the same. EXTRAORDINARY CASE. 'Two or three weeks ago,.appeared a dreadful statement, vapecting a lady in the South of Ireland, having admin istered laudanum to her own child, and thereby occa sioned his death. The following letter relative to the caw, is addressed to the proprietors of the Limerick CAro cic, by the lady herself. UENTLIMEN.—From your willingness at all times to give publicity through your paper, to any thing which array tend to the public good, I am induced to request /ant insertion cf the following statement, as well for the information of those who, through ignorance of the real facts, 'may be led away by the ungenerous reports now abroad against me, as to free an injured character from a charge revolting to human nature. Painful as it is to revert to the recent loss of a beloved and darling child, I cannot in justice avoid doing so, as it may be the means .of rescuieg znysrlf from imputations resulting, as they do, from misconception and misstatement. I shall now •eastravour to account, in as concise a manner as the na- Lire of the charge against me will allow, for administer kg a portion of iaudanum to my child, which formed the grourid-work of the late proceeding% against me. From the earliest period of my tbildren's lives, they %etre occasionally more or less subject to worm cow plain's, which, with a natural delicacy of constitution, o ca4iuned great debility and frequent convulsive at-) The child, %show apparent sudden demise made it n.,ersary, in the opinion of the Coroner, to have an Iraiutst held, had been seriously indispowd for more than fifteen days previously, of which hit uncle, John Hatetaan, Esq. of At avilia, had been informed, and who Ltd exptessed his intention of calling to see him. aileg ing at the sante time, that lie supposed hisindi , po.it'on proceeded from amine. The Apothecary of llirweastl , w.s also au are of the situation of the child—that he ha,: beau frequently seized with convulsive fits—and at his in:aancr, and under his advice, I was in the custom of giving him medicine at duff , rent times. The night on which my dear boy died, be was taken with ore of th its before alluded to, and when nearly reduced to the w,r , st ebb, and having co medical adviser immediately reai me, I drterosined on administering a few drops o, I tudannin, from a strong conviction on my mind that it v as the only thing which could alleviateliis sufferings a• e mow/A—and allow me here to declare, in the per sence,of Almighty tiod, (to whom I appeal for the truth of Inv assertion,) that the entire given did not, at the a - most, exceed ten drops, and that the same quantity ha , hew more the once taken with effect by others of my c hildren, when the nature of t he case re q uired it. T . form any opinion on the probable effect which such quantity might have had on a child of his tender age, would be most presumptuous in me; but to Him wh , can alone search the hearts of all people, 1 look with confidence for an acquittal from any criminal intention towards him. Married at a very early petiod of life, it pleased Providence to bless me with those children, on , of whom has become the unfortunate subject of the pre emie statement. The maternal solicitude evinced by mu for them, and my consta nt attention, as well to their education as moral habits, induced ins , departed Inteb.nd to appoint me, by his will, sole guardian over their per sons and fortunes. And, Gracious God! Gentlemen, can it be seppowd that a fess• short manths could work so total a change in use, as to induce me to be the author of an act, thr very name of which is as hateful, as its perpctrattun would be diabolical ? I have the honour to remain, Gentlemen, Your obedient humble Servant, MILDA BATEMAN The amount of the petitions for burnings, and other destenction of property, delivered in to the Clerk •f the Peace yesterday, was 10,5361. 4s. 10d. Of this sum, 9,612/. 17s. 94. falls on the county at large, peti times to that amount being over 1001. each.—(Southers , Reporter.) Dv the last census taken of Scotland, it appears that the most populous parish is oue of the city parishes cu. Clasgow; and that the !cart populous is the parish of Frgandenny, in-Kinross-shire, where them are only six ma o les and five females, making together eleven human beings. Mary Durrsnt, charged on the oath of Elizshrth Dis ney, needhatn, spinster, with having, on the 27th o February last, on the King's highway, at Haddisrue, as saulted her, and s'olyn from her person various ar i e ., her property, pleaded Ouilty —Death, but re pries ed. Friday evening there arrived at Sheerness 25 convicts from Newrate, all under sentenve of transportation, corn for 14 years, and some for HP, While on board the lanai+, to be i onreyed to the receiving . ship, a fell ,w of the name of Griffiths. although donble-ironed, jumped overboard. and swam upwarns of 150 yards before be ma: retaken. The noted Bill Soames was one of the arty. THE STATESMAN. FROM THE AMEILICAN PAPELS. ARR. New-York papers, which hate arrived to the Mk of March, contain the following article: — TIM BURNING Olt newatte. • A very singular de b ate has taken place in the House of Assembly at Albany, which may have the effect of exposing some secrets worth knowing. While discussing the Bill'for the relief of the Niagara sufferers, whose property was de stroyed in December, 1813, by the British, who burnt Bat falo and laid weste the frontier in retaliation for the burn ing of Newark, General M'Clure, who commanded the mi litia on the American side and the torchmen on the British, went into a full history of the campaign. It may be re marked that our Government at first disowned the burning of Newark, hi a communic tion to Sir George Provost. But during his speech, General M'Clure produced an ordet from General Armstrong, dated Oct. 4, 1813, under which be acted when he applied the torch to the houses of the unof fending citizens. The order is es follows t— " War Department, Oct. 4, 1813. " Sta—Understanding that the defence of the post com mitted to your cher,' may render it proper to destroy the town of N. A., you are hereby desired to apprize its inha bitants of this circumstance, and to invite them to remove themselves and their effects to someplace of greeter safety. " 1 am, Sir, " Very respectfully, your most obedient Servant, " JOHN ARMSTRONG. " The officer commanding at Fort George, Lipper Canada" This order is not positive, end to us looks tether equi vocal. But General 3PC. states that he callec a Council of War, consisting of 30 officers, and they were unani mous, with one exception, as to the course flat must be pursued under the order. General M'Clure lays "some one or two years after the war, 1 had occas i on to visit Washington, and in conversation with the acting Secre tary of War, he told me that no such order had been issued, and stated the other members of the executive en.' binet were alike ignorant of that important fact. 1 then' asked Mr. Graham if the late Secretary, General Arm strong, had not disavowed the act in a correspondence with Governor Provost, of ordering Newark to be blunt. He told me had, and turned to the copy of his let in a book, wherein he declared that it was the unauthorized act of the commanding officer, that it was contrary to the rules of civilized warfare, and exonerated the go vernment from having given any orders on the subject." Again the General says—" lti by a court of inquiry was not instituted at my solicitation, is easily accounted for. I should give a further exposition of facts in re lation to this unplewant business, were it not that I do not wish to wound the feelings of some gentlemen in this Heine—but if the slighest reflection is Gorman out against me, I shall most certainly give an neplensaat itistoly, for I am in possession of incontrovertible facts; and instead of shunning an investigation, 1 invite it, either on this floor or elsewhere." Now we say to tle General, cut with the facts, by all means. Republics should have no secrets. Let us know the worst of this business, strike where it may. General M'Clure has been long labouring antler a load of obloquy, and since le has the power, we think it high time for him to shake ' it ofr. New YORK, MARCH 7.—Notlyithstanding the rule' adopted Isy the House of Representatives of the United States, that no new business bhall be taken up for the last day or two at-the close of the Session, it does not appear that things go on much better at the " winding up, than they did before the new rule was adopted. — By a letter in the Philadelphia National Gazette, it ap pears, that the House met for a2d sitting on Saturday, at six o'clock, r. M. and continued their Session until a late hour in the night. About midnight the Members,' fatigued with such severe duty, withdrew, one by one, anon there was net a quorum left. This of course put en end to regular business for the moment ; but it produced a motion for a call of the House, which was carried. — This, as might have been expected, gave rise to a good deal of debate, in which much much warmth of feeling was manifested. The House, however, was called, and the absentees noted by the clerk, whilst the tioorketper was ordered to shut the door, in order to preclude the absent members from entering, and to prevent these within from leaving the House. In the mean time a mes. senger was despatched for the ah6ent 31enahers to notify them of the call, and merest them to takt their seats— measure that appears not to have been satisfactory to some of the genii. men who had remained at their pasts, and who were desirous of sending the Serj"ant at Arms to bring them in a more forma manlier ; that is, in cus tody. While the messenger was gone for the absent Members, the House proceeded with its regolsr hosines% with the doors fast, which gave rise to another warm de hate, regarding the power of the Members in the Hall to shut out forcibly these who were without. lin tee one title it was contended, that the rights of the people were infringed by the forcible exclusion of their represents-, tives, and, on the other, that the measure was neces sary to force the represeuta'ives of tha people to attend to their (Intim Tits New Esseter.—The Spanish brig Santa Ann arrived in the Mis-isippi on tile dth ult. from Campeachy. Pie Captain reported that*the province of •Ucidan was in a state of complete anarchy. In Campeacity the peo ple were fighting in the :.treets; one party, headed by the e a woks ant priests, contending for the Emperor liurbide, and the other party for their n dotal rights and a Repub lican form of Government. Other accounts received at Ver Orleans, state that Itorbe's prospects berame more eloomy, both at his head-quarters and in the neighbour is ood of his capital. A transport of munitions of war, under convoy of a regi uent of infantry, was sent to St. Luis Potosi from Mexico, on the 6th of Deeemher, on account of the Provinces of Nueva Santander, Bsll 110, Zacatecas, end St. Luis, having declared themselves in favour of the new Republican Go vernment. A manifesto of Santa Ana end Gaudaloupe Vic toris, dated 6th December. exposes the treachery and des potism of Yturbide, and points out in 17 articles the plan of he new Republican Government, which is to he fixed on very liberal principles ; the most striking articles are-1 The Roman Cathctic religion shall he the religion of the state, without toleration of ally other, sod the secular and regular clergy shall converse their rights.—Rd. The execu tive power shall be entrusted to a Junta or Regency elected by Congress ; and ail civil and criminal arms shall be tiied provisioually, according to the Spani.th Constituion. The American schooner, Ohio, John Dari t o, supercar- 1 go, from Philadelphia for Alvrado, was wit-eked on Poe 14th December, near Vera Cruz. The ship Fein a, I;gne; Lin, and the schooner Amiable Teresa, Pratt, sailed ort the .13th Deceuilier front Vera Crnz for Havattneh; the first with 135,000 dollar*, 1,572 marks silver, about 4,1600 ae robes cochineal, int igo, vanilla, and other meichantlize; the latter with 5,700 dollars and merchantlizes ; among which were 77 hogsheads red wine, and 75 boxes 1104 p, return cargo, not being able to s• 11 them at Vera Crus. —(dierota). The Venesolano, of the 13'h of January, stontains the following remarks on the subject of the enthaesage to - lie United States :—lt apptars that Messrs. Leandro Palacio% and Joseah Nlaria Salazar, have nut received the despatches and instructions they expected. Accord ing to some opinions, the commissieus of these gentle lieu are suspended: according to others, Government has revoked them Altogether. The fact is, the Republic will not as vet be represented in the hitched States by Ordtnery and Extraordinary Envoys. According to the judgment of some people (perases not initiated in the mysteries of diplomacy), it wo.dd be ridiculous for two commissioners to be sonaltaheously dispatched on the same errand, clothed with the powers of one Republic, and to be paid from a treasury already impoverished and led with debt. The Rer. Dr. Taylor• one of the Minister of the High Church, awl Principal of the College, died this morning at eight o'clock. —(Glasguio Chronicle of Saturday ) - MAILS. DUE.I ARS. . sus. .. .. Dublin 0 t —.Donn nd ........ 0 1.... Watortbrd.... 0 0.... H stubs* ... : ...... 0.... G & J ersey ... 0 0. ... Franco ..... . ... 0. ... Lisbon 1 1 O.... Flanders ..... ..0 0 .... G ottrnbu rg. .l 0. .NI alto. .......0 DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. India Stock .............. Ditto Bonds .2155. 245. 96spns. South Sea Stock tits. South Sea Old Atm ......... Ez.Bill.2d * 12s 10s Ilspta. 1000/. 3001.12 s 10;11spe. —Small 12s lOs lisps Coe.ferAcct ..........7 4 1 Lottery Tickets 291. Kis PRICE OF STOCKS THIS Batik stock. 3 per Ct. Red 3 P.Ct.Coos ...... 34 per Ct. 4 per Cents New Fours 911 74 b per Ct. ITN. Long A on Imp. 3 per Ct Irish 6 per Cents Tltt *tatetiman. WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 2, 1823. MR. CANNING AND THB GUARANTEE. A French paper, called the Journal of the Debates, has the following remarks on what was said by Mr. Can ning, relating to our guarantee of the Bourbon Throne. They are well worthy of remark. "The five powers are invariably leagued against every " attempt to revolutionize the states of some tine among " (hen.. The value of the guarantee has never been eon ' tested, and England approves of it *slouch as any one of " the Allied Powers. The question of whet line of conduct " they should pursue with regard to Spain was foreign to " their stipulations, since Spain is not one of their corn ",pany. England ham been able to judgwthis particular " question under a different point of view than that of the " other Powers.-with , oit giving us a right to ennande that " site throws off the obligation contracted with her Allies,to " oppose every re v o lutionary attempt directed aga inst one "of them. Although neutral with regard to the Spanish "revolutionists, Ens/hind is still a party to an alliance "against. she revolutionists who may disturb France, " Sue's is the sense of the article of the Treaty mentioned "by Mr. Canning. Stich, certainly, was his view in re " rising to enter into the discus:ion, which Lord J. Russell " desired to bring forward ; for it must be recollected that " in all his speeches. and all his actions, Mr. C inning has " shown that he is one of those who abhor Inv revolutionary " spirit, because lie is one of those who know it best." Tb is, tben, we are not only bound to sippr.ss all 4.. tempts at Revolution in France, but France is bound in a like manner towards our pretty thing; that tweet ' , thing aces us under over-production and Anise at the' ' same time! In short, according to thi, writer, France is bound to support (or make us support)" nationalfailli," tithes, Cation and Old Sarum, the Game Lairs and the new Law of Trespass! This is very kind of the French ; Ihot, one good turn deserv es another: we did all we could to restore to her the inestimable blessings of No- biome, Clergy, Tithes, and Game Law a; and, though we frilled, she, doubtless, took the will for the deed, and is I ready to show her gratitude accordingly. The THING was too far gone in her case. She had actually destroy ed the precious articles, root and branch ; and, therefore, though we gave her basal the form, we could not force on her the substance, anxious as we were to do it. The Bourbons do then guarantee our THING! According to this writer, they actually guarantee " the Envy of " surrounding Nations and adniiratirai of the World!" Brave Bourbons! —For Gon's sake let us have this made clearly out! , Let it be proved, that the Bourbons do really guarantee Gatton and Old Sarum. Faith, tie must look into the Treaties ; we must look into those Tre.diee, which Castlereagh had just signed, alien he ttaS re. eeived with stouts of applause by a crowd of the basest reptiles that the sun ever warmed with his rays. INVASION OF SPAIN. There nprears to be no fresh intelligence on this sub ject. The King of Spain Wel, it seems, removed from Madrid on the 20tli of March, and in a manner which leads es to believe, thatthe Cortes found some opposition from ►he people. That city must now be in a horrid state! Want of business amongst the tradespeople, and want of employment and of food amongst the arti zens and labouters! We should not be at all surprised to hear, that the Royalists ha 4, by this time, erected a Regency in Madrid. This decamping from the capit:tl is, sorely, not a mark of confidence in the Cortes they that have the Flower to resist the French. wife of ►lle inuiviilual at the head of the stow:el A . a Party given by the Duke D'H.%VRE, " that her hus band had just saved the Monarchy." The French ChamLers have lately transacted no business of interest or importance; but in the absence of their discussions, the Journal des Debate presents a lung and laborious article, which is noticed in a preceding part of our paper, .to show that, in spite of Mr. Canning's construction of the treaties between this Go vernment and that of France, England is bound, with all the Powers of Europe, to maintain the Bourbons on the French throne, against the efforts of Itevolvtion lets, as well as of any other enemies. The Moniteer contains three ordinances, si gned by Viscount !Agron.— The last is signed by him as Secretary of State for the War Department. Several Lyonese Gentlemen pres►nted to M. Manuel, on the 29th inst. the Civic Crown voted to him for his conduct in the Chamber of Deputies, after which the lion. Member was invited to a grand dinner given in his honour by the Lyonese then in the capital. Letters of the 20th of February frism Ipsara state, that a Dalmatian vessel had brought a cargo of poisonedfida at that place, which was sold to the inhabitants, and oc casioned many deaths among them before the true cause was discovered. This act tsas attributed to the Turkish Government. An article of the 20th ult. from Vienna as serts, that the Porte had accepted the propositions made by Lord Stanford, but does wit explain their nature. Bayonne papers, which have arrived this morning to the 26th ult. give a different colour to the affairs of the frontlet from what was given in the former Joarnals.— While our warriors, say they, hoped, and even proclaimed beforehand that the Army of the Faith had even extended the sphere of its exp'oits beyond the Ebro, we At on the controls', the theatre of pear comes nearer to our frontiers. After g iving a Microns description of thetroope of the army of the Faith, the account proceeds to state that Oen. Qttestda, *hose he:►d quarters are still at SL Jean de Luz, had given orders to the band of Gorostitli, to ap proach the tanks of , the Bidassoa, and even to attack !run, to facilitate the communication in case of success. In fact, on the 231., that partisan, with SKI men; apt tooted before that town, and, at first, got possession of the approaches to it; but Colonel allonnel, at the bead of 200 men, promptly attacked him, tied dislodged hiat even from the heights of St. Martial, where the ltayalists hal posted themselves. On the 24th, a part of the column of the Pastor an 4 the French battalion, consisting of 300 refugees, curling the Spanish and thu tri-coloured flag, arrived at V ray, and immediately made a military promenade amidst the repeated cries of Vine is Con:ligation—Vine la It is even affirmed that more troops are expected on this point, to observe u hat passes oa the Bidassoa and lo cover S. Sebastian. A report was spread that Orneral Quisada, entered Iron on the evening of the 23:1. but news seemed to be premature. STOCK EY.COANGE, 14 O'CLOCK.—We are very barren of information in the City, to this hour, and there is hut little doing in the Funds. Consols opened at 743, at which price they remain steady. We have no account es ye t of any Expresses from Paris this morning. It is slid that Government have received despatches ftwu Aladris% hut their contents, have nut as yet transpired. FOREIGN FUNDS.—tipaoish Ronda opened this mornirg at 29a, and went down to alt parties are semi Atsly waiting for accounts of the Ist April, from the Pyrenees. the day when hustiliCes were espeeted to hate commenced. Chili. li7—!,,lew Speekh, 29Z-01d. 36—Neer Prussia, 7111 —Old, :32—Danish, tnt —Culotneia, Zetii—Russia, Letters dated the 21st ult. were received yesterday frosts St. Sebastian. AU hope of avoiding war had tang ceased, and the inhabitants of this place acre pn p wing to meet it with firmness This being the nearest forti fied town to Biyonne, there was reasan to expect that one of the earliest operations of the French would be to make 4lierusekres masters of it, and preparations were therefore making to sustain a siege. All the women and children had been removed to Paysages, a small village in tie nelghbonrhood, on the sea coast. Bitsini sr was fur the must part suspended in St. Sebastian, moat of the merchants and their clerks having entered their oawrs as volanteers to join the force embodied far the defence of the province of Biscay against the French. :tinny isail set out for the different stations at wwhieh detach ments of troops were placed. T..e military force us Biscay was estimated altogether at about 15,003 men. Generally licalting,th re exi-ted in the province a very high c o nstitutional spirit, lint not althea, sum excep tions, as a few vonng men of family, a'arnied at the ri gam of the military service that awaited them, list at tached themselves to the Army of the Faith or Royalist party. The, number of these degenerate persons was, nowt ver, wholly insignificant; nor aas their cowardly purpose likely to he iniaiced, as the avowed intendant of the French Generals was to place them in the van, an 4 expose them to the brunt of the first attack uimu attic own countrymen. By the Mary, Captain Parnell, arrived at Liverpool from Lisbon, hiving left the Tagus on the morning of the lahls Mt., letters of the 13th have been received from the Portuguese capital. By these it is asceriained that the rebellion in the province of Tras os Montea was emu. pletely quelled; that General Rego heti entered Chaves; and that Countil'Atnarante had tied into Spain. prohablg intending to join his ultra friends, or his old colleague Qoesada. Most of the troops whom he had dtceived by false statements of the support they were likely to receive, bad previously abandoned him sod joined the Constitu. tional army under General Rego. Captain Parnell re• ports, that as late as the 14th the Duke of Keot packet (Nu. 2.). which sailed from Falmouth oa the 6th ult. bid not arrived at Lisbon, which accounts for no packet hat ing left since the Marlliorough, which sailed ou the 9tb, and reached England last week. Extract of a letter dated Rio Janeiro, January IQ.--- "The decree of this tioverunietit for titling out priva teers to cruise against the Portuguese flag, is of counsel declaration of war. Letters of marque were some months aao sent to North America, but with institm ions that they should not be issued till the 30th of December. — There is little doubt, therefore, that by this time a swarm of privateers have sailed from the United States. Today an order has been sent don't to the Custom house, that all red wine shall in future pay 12 milreasper cent. duty. a Ishii is the same rate paid by the Portuguese on port aim's. Formerly all foreign wines paid six niitrcas ditty; and the order further adds, that all articles mannfac tared in Porttigal, shall pay 24 per cent. ad calurem , which is the Sailleas paid by all foreigners with the ex ception of the English. As yet no alteration has takea place in the 15 per cent. paid by the English: hut should England refuse to recognise the Emperor, there is no &min but we shall he obliged to pay the CCM duties as ~ titer foreigners." A Literary and Scientific institution Is about to be esta blistiettaill Use Bette Of the Lower H.OUtIIS at Beth. 10 u«•._ THE MARKETS. The country papers inform us, that the corn is come back to the price that it e ns at previous to the quaker_ the. We hear of some thundering big Quakers, who are selling out corn at a great rate, seeing that they have no longer any hope of war! It is curious enough. Oat corn ha , ; nut risen in price in France in consequence of teal war ! This, which we know to be the fact, is deci_ sive as to the folly of expecting high prices from war, even if war were to take place. There is nobody mud bat English farmers and corn-dealers. The truth is, that, in France, there is a se►tled, solid currency, and state of things ; and that, here, all is unsettled; all in a state of uncertainty. Another country bank has broken ! Who thcn,will be fool enough to keep a bank-note after theist of May? It is impossible t.) suppose, that there will not be a farther diminution of the currency after that day; and, indeed, prices must come dawn to those of France; or this island mast be abandoned : it must become a de , .sert. Bat, if we !tick to the gold, they still ccone doien to those of France; and that will produce all the -drectsthut tee wish to see.••' Equitable, Adjustment", or a complete transfer of Estates: and we care not much ' which it is to he ; for either will do for Batton, Old Sa ram, and the Lord Charleses ; Ilia an end tot he poacher-transportation laws. • French Papers have arrived to the 31st ult. It seems by an article in the Quotidienne from Perpignan, that the Duke of Arrootmiams did nut reach that place till the 24th. lie wtia to pass the troops in review ou the follow ing day, and to proceed without further delay to Bay onne, where he would arrive in time to head the army in its passage across the Pyrenees, even suppolinz that operation to have been effected last Saturday. The Con etitutionnel intimates that the communications which it was in the habit of receiving from its correspondents on the frontiers, have been stopped by the French Authori ties, and argues from the statements of the Ultra and Ministerial Prints themselves, that the reported irrup-• tion of MINA really took place, and created' considerable alarm awl a change of position its some corps of the French Army. The sante Journal says, that the hING'S brother, Mossisurt, publicly told Madame Ftt.►NcuCT,