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I PEI i * :- IARLIAMEXTARY INTELLIGEACE. HOUSE OF LOR'De, WZIMESD;T, FEs. S. .4 GIFFORD, for the Stet tiros this Session, presided as to the House of Peen, in the absence of the Lord Chan- Earl SHAFTESBURY presented the Annual Report on the State of the Convicts, thenhant to Act of Parliament, which was ordered to lie on the table. Earl SH AFTESBURY also read the Order of the House, by which no petitions Yon Private Beds ars to be received after Thuesday, the 94th fdartlt. The House adjourned ar'Five o'Clock. 110119 E or COMMONS. Fla. 9. The Sexassa took the Chair at the usual hour. but there being but thirty-Ave Members present, the Home was adjourned. ROUSE OF COMMON% THIS DAY. NOTICES OF MOTIONS. Motion regarding thelivy of Church Ilsis to amend certain Aets relathitto Unlawful r BRITISH STOCKS YESTERDA Y. Bank Mhiclf ISSf • • India tleord,,U9 98 put S per Chit. Red. 94f Long. Ann, 23 3.16 per Cent. Cons. ISO 1 1 Et. Bill.. 21. LOON. Riess Atm. ' Ditto, I id. MOSLII6 $4 ma •- , 3e perCeist. ROC hill Ditto, NIL SO O. lea New 4 per Cent. lOW 196 iDltto, Shish OS N pis Trei Mr. PRICES OF FOREIUN AA•eriam Ikaids.27/ Scar/Ilan Bonds SO three Scrip ted pm (ISO) 4/ I . yei Am. j o g i r s Ayres 881 92 221 D. ( Mt) 9911 Ditto Amt. 92 1/ 2 I 117 1 1JE 121 t ryes& 14.111 r. Mk. E .Ik. PRICES OF SHAI siOII.IIANCE COMPAIMS. Altana Brit. and For. 18 DAto Marina 7 * Guardian Palladium 23 • Protestor If 2 If ' • muss. A605-21nican 95 110 Aaglo-Chilian 101 i H ItAtz.lian 21 t.-hiliaa 16 Ccdombian 33i 34i Ger, Mining Association 114 14 Hibernian 106 Paso. Penni= 24- • Heal dal Monts 070 Hinds la Plata 97 150 la pm United Mexican 90 104 Welch Iron and Coal 5 6COCKA YESTERDAY. .IPresseb Scrip for the Ace. DR Oreek Bonds 69•1 60 69.169} Ditto Acct. 60 bit; e 694 Mexican Bonds 814 I Ditto Acet. 814 . Neapolitan Bonds Ditto Bonds (18'241 921 Pe►uvian Bonds 841 Otto Acct. 114 1 Russian Bonds (1822) 971 Spanish Cons. 224 ►1 8 j 4 Ditto Acct. 22H Ditto Cons. (1M) 16 ES 'YESTERDAY. GAII LIGHT AND COIL CON. PANIC/. Continental tii 9 Provincial Portable 21 • 1110 X RAILW•TS. London and Bristol 14 London and Northern 14 Manchester and Liverpool 14 MISCELLAXSOVS. Australian 28 British Iron Company 74 Bristol Ship Canal Canada Company 29 Equitable Loan Bank ! Gold Coast Association 74 Metro. Alderney Dairy 4 New Corn Eiehange SI Pearl Fishery (Yellow) 111 18 Ditto (White) 13 Pro,. Bank of Ireland 84 gilt ll« titiOh WOO. TIIEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. 11 k . Evelling, THURSDAY. Feb. 10. will be performed DER FRSISCHUTZ: Or, THI BLACK HUNTSMAN OF ROHIMIA. ;Ateasr. Mr. Baker; Conrad, Mr. Egerton Caspar, Mr. Bennett; Wl. helmet. Mr. Pearl:Hu,: the Black FiUIitSUIOU of Buhemla, Mr. Cesar, Mho Paton; Lena, Wu Lore. 6- littir *writ. - • • HARLEQUIN AND THE TALKING Foßn, THE SINGING TREES, ANO GOLDEN WATERS. nosquw, Mr. Howell; Pantaloon. Mr. T. Blanchard; Clown, Mr. Kirby. Columbine, NW Barnett. I ni — Aleb Jean Henri. the celebrated Tambour Major twin, to *lmaged tee • limited Dumber Of nlgttbl, will repeat Ala Perfortnanees. ..Te4nerrow, The Merehaatat needs% and the Pantomime. • THEATRE. ROYAL. COVENT-GARDEN. This Evening, THURSDAY ' Feb. 10. will be performed NATIVE LAND; OP. THE RETURN FROM SLAVERY. eAtarpUodl Montalto. Mr. Sinclair; Guiseppo. Mr.W. Farren; Tea grr. Cooper ; Peregrlno, Mr. Fawcett. Clyenaute, Miss Paton; rr Mlle Love: Bloudina. Miss M. Tree. • To conclude with HARLEQUIN AND THE DRAGON OF WANTLIT ; Or. WORE OF MORE HALL. HAriecualn. Mr. ; Pantaloon, Mr. Barnes; Clown, Mr. J. S. Gri maldi. Columbine. Miss Romer. Yeraorrow. A Woman Never Vest, and the Pantomime. ADELPHI THEATRE, STRAND. -- 1 a.s Evening, THURSDAY. Feb. le, will be presented a new Co}nle Barletta, called THE LIFE OF AN i.CTOR. The Principal Characters by Messrs. Wrench. J. Reeve, Wilkinson, )Ever. Lee Drown, Campbell, Stater, and Elliott ; Miss Bodin. Mrs. Daly, Searle, Bryan. etc. dec. To conclude with MORE BLUNDERS THAN ONE; OR. THE IR ISII VALET. Larry Hooligan, Mr. Power; Louisa Lovemure, Miss S. Booth. Barr tau Pa tan commenced publishing yesterday morning at five o'clock. LONDON, THURSDAY, The Paris Papers of Monday bring us no fresh intelli gence from arty part of Europe. The policy and proceed i ogs piths English Cabinet seem at this moment to engross i the attend= of the French politicians of all classes. We observe that the Ministerial Journals continue to affirm, very positively, that the general peace will not be inter , opted, though the Cabinet of Madrid is using all its in duc.ce to stir up the Powers of the Holy Alliance to take ve:leance on this country fur violating what they call the in;:iciples of legitimacy. The Spanish Ministers are stated , J have resolved upon sending out two expeditions, one to ::conquer Mexico, the other to preserve Peru.! For this purpose, the amstitutionnel says, a junta of ecclesiastical Igattaries will be formed, to raise the necessary funds by an assessment on the church property. The Etoile, however, asserts, that a new loan has been con tracted, on terms nowise contrary to the dishonest determination Of FLADIN•ND, " Never to recognize, in any manner, the loans of the Revolutionary Go vernment." We are told that "at this moment the ra tification of the Committee of the shareholders in England is waited for." What Committee is this ? The Spanish Government is surely in a day-dream. In the private correspondence from Lisbon, the French papers give a sketch of the characters of the new Portuguese Ministry. The accounts that have been received from that capital perfectly concur with the representations given U. 41. y a Lt In all the letters we have seen, the writers speak of the &Lange in the Portuguese Ministry as a complete triumph of the English influence ; and they conikkntly look to the recognition of Brazil, by the Cabinet of Lisbon, as soon as Sir Cii•RI.V.B STUART shall arrive thetc. fasmcii FUME/I.—P*lm, Fen. 7.—Five per Cents. opened at 14/3f. The. ; clamed at 103 f. fise.; amok Stock, 1,93.1 f., 7;,f.; Neapolitan acmes, IS; Spanish ditto, 17i; Spanish Loan, gi; Eachaageftn Locdon--one month, 25f. ; three ditto, •2tf. 85c.— Cose& elwtheritiqbe, Feb. 7. Fillltt;•ltT 10, 19 Vi. in the German Papers received yesterday, we observe a statement which tends strongly to corroborate the opinion that the policy of England, with respect to the new Ame n an States, will in substance be followed by the maritime Powers of Europe. The Government of the Netherlands has rent out Commissioners, who are now in America waking the requisite ingaiiries, preparatory to the act of recognition ; *tad notwithstanding the doubts we have seen ..apre...aed by some who ought to know the character of the French Government well, we believe that M. DI Viu.si.s witl take the first opportunity of disengaging himself from Cie trammels of his corm-Aim with Spain and the Holy Alliance, in order that he may promote the corn /genii istaresu of • the country over which he presides. •cw,71 1 .7%."'" 1.11P.11111 ~ r He inclines decidedly to a pacific system. and it is easy to dts-ern, that in his late financial measures a principal ob ject was to 'restrain the warlike propensity of the ultras bi whom he is surrounded and embarrassed. But if die statement to which we have above alluded be true, one of the leading members of the Holy Alliance has also com- Omitted the scandalous offence of suffering the interests of Ms subjects to preponderate over the sacred pr:nciples of legitimacy. It was rumoured some time ago, that the Ca binet of Berlin was disposed to follow the example of Eng land, and it is now announced that the Prussian Govern ment has resolved to establish a commercial intercourse with the new States ; and that, for that purpose, a Prus- Man Consul has been appointed at Buenos Ayres. It is in this quiet, but effectual mode, that we expect the wise and temperate policy of Mr. CANNING will operate. Theehief danger he had to avoid, in accomplishing his ob joetvwas that of giving to the violent party on the Con tinent a pretext for being offended. The Right Honour ' able Secretary has steered safely and successfully through all the difficulties of his course, and peace being thus en sured, the mercantile and manufacturing interests in eac:: State, are left quite free to urge, on their respective Go vernments, is we may be sure they will not fail to do, the propriety and justice of protecting them, by the usual ar rangement' with the independent Colonies of Spain. This question will probably lead to the virtual dissolution of that mischievous compact of Princes which most indecently sr rogated to itself the title of the Holy Alliance. The state of Ireland will this evening come under the consideration of both Houses of Parliament. In the Lora, the Earl of Lie moot., pursuant to the notice he gave on the first day of the Session, will bring the subject generally before the House, in moving for an inquiry halo the condition of the country. In the Commons, Mr. Got:see as, as the organ of the Irish Government, will prove for leave to bring in a Bill for the more effectual sup pression of unlawful Associations. In each House we may expect a long and animated debate, with respect to the in fluence and character of the Catholic Association. The Opposition, faithful to the duty their name imports. have resolved to support this new power, sui generis, to which they positively affirm Ireland owes whatever internal peace and prosperity she enjoys. The Loan LIEUTIN•NT, how ever, it appears, differs from them widely in his view of the effects of these Associations, and until lately the adminis tration of the Marquis Watt ESLEY WAS the theme of their reluctant but unqualified approbation. It is hard, we as told, to put down an Association which has been produc tive of so much advantage (viz. according to their estimate, all the good that has been done for Ireland), because its leading members may have indulged in strong or even in flammatory language, or because its peace-making ad dress tnsy have adjured its subje:ts to be tranquil by the hate they bear the rest of their countrymen. Much, it is said, should be allowed to men smart ing under galling grievances, and especially to a peo ple warm and uncalcuiating like the Irish. But the passages selected are not all that have been uttered in this spirit. They are not picked out of a mass of harm's', matter ; they are only fair samples of the whole. At every meeting such appeals are made, and by every speaker ; and surely the impetuosity belonging to the na tional character, far from rendering the Association an ob ject of indifference, makes it, under these circumstances, the more dangerous and alarming. As it grows in power, we see it daily assuming a tone of loftier audacity, and guiding and directing the feelings of a bigoted and ignorant peasantry like that of Ireland, who shall foretel the evils it may produce, if it be antlered to proceed unchecked ? One day Mr. Snell. expatiates upon a general massacre of the Protestants, which he predicts as the result of their in tolerance and illiberality. On another day Mr. O'Cox NELL assures his Catholic auditory that the BOURBONS, sympathising with them by reason of the community of religious sentiments, will, the first war that happens, avoid the error of BoNArsers:, and strike down the greatness of England, by delivering Ireland from her tyranny. At the meeting of the Association, on IVednesday last, the Learned Gentleman, •we perceive, turned his attention to the Clergy of the Established Church. A previous speaker had been lauding the Scotch for their obstinate resistance to episcopacy. Mr. O'CoN xri.r., in allusion to this Ad dress, went on to remark Scotland for more than one hundred years was the most turbo. lent part of the empire. She did not exhibit the patience or self control of Ireland, nor patiently suffer herself to be trampled on, while her oppressors rode by in triumph. She hewed down with the Milt d of the Lurd Me Archbishops and Bishops; and when the force of the Riltish arms became too strong for her people, they retired to their mountains, and, after renovating their vigour, they returned to carry desolation to the very dwellings of their assailants. The Scots rose in repeated insurrections, and retaliated on their foes by more than one successful rebellion. They got possession of their King, and then sold hint into the hands of his enemies. The scene of carnage and desolation was renewed after the Resto. vision ; and if the Scots fell, their only consolation was, that they dyed their avenging swords with the blood of their enemies." -- - Mr. 0 . CONNLI.L does not, in terms, say to the Irish " Go, and do likewise ;" but we think nobody can mistake the purpose of this eulogy on the hewing down Archbishops and Bishops. When the Learned Gentleman's friend and ally, COBBII T, sent over his plan for the " pid:Foid," he described very minutely how easily forged notes might be scattered about the streets, and how certainly the Government would, by that acl, be paralyzed and overthrown. But " mind," said he, " I advise nobody to do this. I only show how it might be 'done." By such artifices as these, the existing law may be 'cheated, but surely that is the best reason why it should be amended. The English Markets opened a shade worse than their closing price of yesterday. At the beginning of the day Consuls for the Account were at 931, and there were buyers at that price ; they soon, however, declined to a The money price all day was 933 ; at the conclusion, the markets were rather flatter. The Foreign Securities were all firm during the day. Colombian Bonds, 82i ; New Brazilian Scrip, 41i; Spanish was steady at 221; Mexican, tili ; Buenos Ayres, 92; Peruvian, 1341; French Rentea, 104; and Greek Bonds were done at 59; GO. The latter were much sought after, and a general confidence prevailed on the Stock Exchange as to the success of their cause. The New Greek Loan was full by twelve o'clock yesterday ; indeed, the respectability of the contractors has given the best sanction to the public confidence in the affairs of Greece, as it is manifest they must be satisfied of the soundness of the cause that the loan is intended to support. The Mine and Share Market was improving; indeed, the panic, camped by the Lord Chancellor s deeltration, appears to be in a great degree removed. A St. Domingo Mining Company is now forming in the City. The Newfoundland Papers contain the particulars of a public meeting of the inhabitants, held the Sd of January, to take into consideration the Report of the Committee appointed to negociate with the English Government, re specting the state of the fisheries, the agricultural, and, other important intertitts of the Colony. The Report of the Committee was mueli apiWOyed of, and a memorial to Lord Bathttrat, regarding the decline of trade autt rite fisheries, was agreed t*. • THE BRITISH .P 'RESS. FASIIIONABLE INTFLLIGENCg. The Bishop of Exeter had a dinner party on Tuesday, at his house in Great George-street, Westminster. Lord James Stuart entertained a distinguished party at dinner yesterday, at his house, In Whitehall-place. Gen. and Mrs. Roes entertained the Marchioness and the Lather' Cornwallis, and a select party, at dinner, yesterday, at their house in Portland.place. The Countess of Essex entertained an elegant circle of fashion able, yesterdey evening, at her house in Hill-street, Berkeley square. The Duke of Devonshire has arrived it, town from the Duke of Rutland's, Belvoir Castle, Rutiandshire. Lord George Lennox arrived in town yesterday, from his teat in Sdssex. Viscount Duneannon has, arrived in town from a tour. Lord and Lady Anson have arrived at their house in Cureon street, Mayfair, from their seat in Staffordshire. D. Tighe, Esq. has arrived in town frOnt Brighton. Mrs. A. F. Grevtile has arrived si her house in George-street, Hanover-square. Cr. 11. Hamilton, Esq. has arrived in town from Brighton. Lord Finderick Bentinck has left town for the Earl of Laudalee seat, Couesmore, Rutlandshire. Sir Alexander Hope, Bart. arrived in town yesterday, from the Military College, Bagshot. Hon. Thomas Knox, M.P. has arrived at his house in Upper Grosvenor -street, from his seat in Harts. Mr., Mrs., and Miss Newton left Blake's Hotel, Jerrnyn-street, yesterday, for their seat in Norfolk. Mr. and Miss Coryton yesterday left Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley square, for Paris. Colonel Lowther, M.P. has left town for the Earl of Lonsdale's taint in Rudandshire. • Arrivals at Kirkham's Hotel, Lower Brook-street:-Mr. and Lady Sarah Bailey and family, from their seat, Hertaball, braibtkir Mts. Henry Hoare from Brighton ; Batson, Esq. from his mat In Cambridgeshire. Lady Galway and family have left ditto for their seat in Yorkshire. Lord Stopford has arrived in town from Ireland. The Duke and Dueness of Athol and family arrived on Tuesday at th it house in Great George-street, front their seat in Scotland. The Earl and Countess of Jersey left town yesterday, for their seat, Middleton Park, Oxfordshire. Lord and Lady Kingston and family arrived yesterday at their house in Hereford-street, from Ireland. Lord and Lady Langford and family arrived yesterday at their house its Berkeley-sqttare, from their seat, Cooper's Hill, Surrey. C K. l'ynte, Esq. left town yesterday for II eymouth. Arrivals at Read's Hotel, Lower Grosvenor-street : Honourable Andrew Windsor, from Warwickshire ; lion. Captain &laved. Curzon, R.N. from Lord Scarsdale's seat in Derbyshire ; Mr. 1014.' son and Mr. Torre, from Abington Hall, Cambridgeshire; Me. Vansittart, from his seat in Bucks. ' Thomas Smith, Esq. M.P. has left town for Cotteemore, Rut landsh ire. Arrivals at Holmes' Hotel, Parliament.street :—General Heel. M.P. from Ireland ; Mrs. Rose, from Brighton ; Mn. and Mb Smith, fronsa tour. • Arrivals at the London Hotel, Albemarle-street:—Lord Long ford, front Ireland; Mr. and 3lrs. lAwson, front their seat in Suf. folk ; the Rev. Henry and Mrs. Palmer have left ditto, fur their seat in Leiceetershire. Arrivals at the St. George's Hotel, Albemarle-street :—The Rev. Mr. Gooch, from a tour ; Captain JCTlOilte, R.N.; Captain San derisnd. Arrival at the British Hotel, Jermyn.street :--Mr. Powell, M.P., and Mr. Crewe, M.P., from Ireland. Arrivals at the Royal Hotel, St. James's.street t—J. Mansfield, Ksq. 31. P., E. Blacket. Esq., Lightbodv, C. W. Clay, Esq.. C. P. Berkeley, Esq., It. Harrison, J. Sanders, fro.o Liverpool ; the flonourabk .1. Steuart, from Edinburgh. THE KING'S COURT. Yesterday, at two o'clock, his Majesty. held a Court at his Palace in Pall-mall, which was attended by the Lord Chancellor, the Lord President of the Council, the Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the Foreign and Colonial Departments, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Master-General of the 1 Ordnance, the President of the Board of Control, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the Master of the Horse, the Vice-Chamberlain, Earl Cathcart (Gold Stick), the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench, the Rtcorder of London, the Judge of Madras, the Judge Advocate-General. Viscount Lake was the Lord in Waiting, and Colonel Whatley the Groom in Waiting. Robert Buckley Comyn, Esq., was presented to his Ma jesty by the Right Hon. Charles Wynn, President of the Board of Control, to receive the honour of Knight hood, on his being appointed one of the Puisne Judges at Madras. The King held a Privy Council, at which Mr. Buller attended as Clerk ; at the conclusion of which the Re corder of London was admitted into the presence of the King in Council ; when he made his report of the con victs capitally convicted at Justice Hall, in the Old Bailey, at the last December Sessions. His Majesty gave audiences to the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Harrowby, the Earl of Liverpool, and the Judge Advocate-General, who laid before the King the proceed ings of some Courts-martial, and took his Majesty's com mands upon the same. The Court broke up about half-past five o'clock. The Duke of Clarence came to town yesterday morning, from his residence at Bushy. His Royal Highness left town at half-put four o'clock in the afternoon, on his re turn to Bushy. Yesterday the Cabinet Ministers dined with the Earl of narrowby, at his house in Grosvenor-square, being the first Cabinet Dinner the Noble Earl has given this season. Mr. Secretary Peel was prevented from attending the King's Court yesterday by indisposition. The Right Hon. Gentleman continues confined to his house with a severe cold. Earl Bathurst transacted the official duties of the Right Hon. Secretary with the King in his absence. Prince Polignse, the French Ambassador, transacted business yesterday at the Foreign Office, Downing-street. Yesterday Mr. Hunter, one of the King's Foreign Mes sengers, arrived. at the Foreign Office, Downing-street, with despatches from our Ambassador at Paris, to Mr. Secretary Canning. Lord Marcus Hill is preparing to accompany Sir Charles Stuart to Lisbon, and finally to the Brazils. CHELTINIIAX, ran. s.—Amongst the latest arrivals are— Marchioness of Downshire, Lord and Lady Rodney, Lord O'Neill, Lady Oresley, Sir C. Morg an. Bart., Count de Bourbel, Mr.,and Hon. Mrs. Wallis Grieve, General Orr, Colonel and Mrs. Money, Colonel and Mrs. PleaderLeath, Dr. Mrs. and Miss Chichester, Dr. and Mrs. M•Cabe, Rev. Dr. Foulkes, Rev. C. Isham and .family, Rev. Mr. Pope, Captain Keuibly ; Mr. and Mrs. Nugent ; stamen, Wallington and family ; V, alpole ; T. Webb, ke. &c. Mr. Kean and the Committee for conducting the Drury lane Theatrical Fund, had the honour of waiting on his Royal Highness the Duke of York, on Tuesday, when his Royal Highness was graciously pleased to appoint the An niversary Dinner for Friday, the 18th of March. Mr. Campbell, the poet, has written a letter to the Editor of a Morning Paper, recommending the establish ment of a Metropolitan University. Madame de Cenlis is to receive 40,000 francs for the copyright of her Memoirs, the largest sum she ever received for any of her works. We understand it is in contemplation to establish at Willis's Rooms, a Set of Quadrille Balls every Friday during the Season, under the patronage of several Ladies of distinction. ADELPIII THEATRE.—This Theatre was last night crowded to excess, to witness the popular performance of the lje of en Actor. This piece is the rival, as well as the successor, of the Torn and Jerry of last season ; and while it creates a greater degree of interest and pleasure, it aptly illustrates, and that, without much exaggeration, the life and character of one of those " half-pay animals on the muster-roll of creation"—a strolling player; and gives a moral lesson from the stage, which not long ago taught the youth of the metropolis that to talk "slang," to " floor a Charley," and to drink heavy wet," were accom plishments which no gentleman who wishes to know what " Life in London" is, should be without. We are pleased, therefore, that this production has been so eminently suc cessful ; and we hope its success will teach the Managers that they may profit by legitimate means. We understand that the actual rec:ipt at the treasury of Covent-garden Theatre, on the first night of Miss Foote's. appearance this season, was nine hundred posnds rizrerrs shillings, the largest sum ever received.—Reeniai : Paper. The friends of that excellent Institution the East London ' Catholic Charity Schools, for the education and clothing of poor Catholic boys an d girls, are to be honoured this year by the support of D. O'Connell, Esq. who is to take the Chair at their Anniversary Dinner, on Tuesday, February 15, at the City of London Tavern, Bishepegase 4, F,..0:c ; I, FRENCH PAPERS. IProm the Doak, dated Tuesday.] PARIS. FEB, 7. A journal yesterday rretended that a Congress was goirg to meet at Paris. We do not know whence it derived its news, which has no foundation whatever. The Constituannuel and the Courrirr Franeaise have immediately laid hold of this piece of intelligence ; they ronsider it as certain, and both of there speak of war. •' Two parties are formed in Europe, one of them must yield to the other, or this division will necessuily produce hostilities.•' We refer those Journals to the speeches of Lord Liverpool and Mr. Canning, and to the English Journals. They say there is nothing in the step just taken by England, beyond a legislative protection of existing interests. li'e hsve a letter from St. Galen, in Switzerland, of the 26th January, which says that the Great Council is to deliberate on a Pstem to he established, relative to the demands made by Foreign owers, to deliver up certain persons. Professor Schnell has been set at libcrtr, after some days arrest. The Chevalier Angelani, Consul-General of France at the Ha. vannah. and Inspector-General or the French Commerce in the Antilles, arrived at the Ilavannah at the end of October last, and immediately took possession of the important post which is con fided to him. [From the Monitelir of Monday.—Non-Official Part.] MADRID, JAN - . '25. Spain enjoys the most perfect tranquillity. The Count d'En paFne. Captain-General of Arragon, having represented to the .Kirg that several Generals and Officers had the audacity to wear in public the insignia, crows, and uniforms. which they received from the Revolutionary Government, his Majesty has just signed a decree. which - forbid', every person any murk of distinction granted by the Constitutionalists, because any thing that was done during the revolution is happily destroyed. All the Royal Family will go next month to Aranjues, with the 'rine@ and Princess of Sammy. Very little is taid of the Loan at this moment ; the ratification of theCoyornittee of the Shareholders in England is waited for. The courier despatched from this City is allowed only twenty. five days to go from Madrid to Londno and back again. If we may believe Onions of credit liter; is nothing in the con ditions contrary to the firm resolution of our Monarch. never to re cognise, in any manner, or any tent% the Loans of the Re*olu. . . tionary Governments. • [From the Journal des Delves of Monday.} • .. biAaanur, JAN. 27. The report which was in circulation concerning the approaching publication of an amnesty, has entirely ceased; It is no longer talked of, although the Government receives note upon note on the necessity for its appearance. What I have often told you has happened--namely, the Government not thinking itself strong enough openly to attack the party opposed to the amnesty. is con tented with establishing a system of numieration that is tolerably conciliating, and has changed coins authorities whose principles might lie in opposition to this system. Our Government. after great labour, have perfected a plan of Representative Government, suited, it is said, to the state of knowledge in the Peninsula, and to the extensive Aristocratical elements which exist there. I can tell you nothing of my own knowledge of the contents of this project, but once more I assure you of its existence; and I can equally assure you copies of it have been given to the French, Russian, Auc.zian,- and Prussian Ministers, that they may transmit them to their re. respective Courts, to be examined. I can add to what I have just told you, that persons who are intimate with our Ministers, and who are in the habit of reading their thoughts, pretend that the new plan is nothing more than the renewal of a project of the Antic Council, which was agitated six months ago, with, how ever, a few insignificant modifications, which, in adding another step to be gone through in the march of our political and admi nistrative affairs, will not materially alter the form of the Go vernment as it at present exists because the new body being only composed of persons chosen by the Government itself, though irremovable, the nation would not be in the least represented. If these conjectures be well-founded, the Ministerial combination would produce, at most, a well-regulated Council of State, which, besides its ordimay sittings, would have ore appointed for legis lation. PARIS, PER. 3. The Speech of the King of England, on the opening of Parlia ment, is what it ought to be. It is astonishing that there are Journals who endeavour to find in it what is not there, and tint ether Journals [these are ministerial) should pretend to see nothing in it, as if they to fact feared to find something. The Representative Government is real in England, and the nation is a power. If the Speech of the King of England can be attacked by the English as being the work oithe Ministry, it is not unknown in the country, that with respect to Europe, and in the forms of diplomacy, this Speech is to be considered as being the expression of the King's: thoughts. A double usage is established on this double truth. The English have every facility of discussion on the Royal Speech, and they are so weighed as never directly to commit the Royal Speech with foreign governments. But as fast as foreign diplo. macy demands explarations, the power of the nation is put forward; and whilst notes and counter-notes are interchanged, the national opinion is expressed with such strength, that the English sustains the resistance which it had prepared, on the will of a people who know their own interests, and which it would not be in the power of Ministers to deceive, even if they should so intend, to endeavour to lead them to other opinions. The real secret °fa Representative Government consists, deprived of all faction, in always opposing the strength of a whole nation to wishes, which, in Absolute Governments, are only expressed by the Cabinet. Without doubt the English diplomacy is strong in men and talents; but to know all her power, her ',vitt d'appai must never be forgotten. A French Minister may think that he has as great talents as 31r. Canning, and not be deceived in that respect ; but if he enure the lista with Mr. Canning, he will be under the inevitable disadvantage of only looking in himself for his resources, against a man who knows how to make use of the strength of a nation which possesses opi nions of ids own, and who arc not in want of any instigation to make them known. In England it is known that nothing can resist a nation truly free, when it agrees with itself and with its King on the principles of its prosperity, and on the means of maintaining it. Their measures are taken accordingly. The King's Speech at the opening of Parliament only opens the scene. If it be true, as the Ministerial Journals say in France, that the personal opinion of the Monarch, and of some Members of the Cabinet, is not quite conformable to the last measures adopted, the question will be agitated in the House, and the dif ferences will be effaced in conciliating each other; because the great merit of a Representative Government is to produce unity of opinion as a natural consequence of public deliberations. In Absolute Governments, on the contrary, unity of opinion is often deranged by weakness and intrigue, even after the proclamation of the adopted measures. Certainly, it cannot be said that eb•iolute power in Spain produces there unity of opinion. The discussions in Parliament must then be waited for to appre ciate what ought to take place in England ; for there is nothing tinny in that country till the nation has . publicly pledged itself. All that can be said of the King's Speech is, that it does not belie any thing that has been done in the absence of the Houses, and that is will not oppose any thing that remains to be done. Here, we are willing that every thing should flow from the Crown. In England it seems that the Crown sometimes avoids using the initiative part which belongs to it. Each people has its system ; the essential is to arrive at a conclusion with the institu tions, that it to say, with all the authority of one's country. From the Courrier Francais of Monday.] LISBON, Jax. Nothing can at present be said of the cours;,;3iinistry --- h;;Clly formed, means to pursue; but it is to be hoped that it will be as satisfactory as our intestine divisions, and the situation of our fi nances will permit. The acknowledgment of the independence of Brazil is already spoken of ; it is a measure which would draw into our coffers considerable sums. A decree of amnesty is also spoken of, which will contain no exceptions, and will grant favour to poll. viral opinions of all sorts. as baying been sent to the Royal print ing press, and that it is to be published all over the kingdom. In short another decree is spoken of, whose object is to guarantee an asylum to those Spaniards who are obliged to exile themselves from their native country. If this news turns out to be correct, we shall be obliged to the intercession of England for having become indulgent one to another, and hospitable to our neighbours. - M Ann ID. JAN. 27. Since the declaration of England, our hightlyen have cast aside all their hopes on the Holy Alliance; they ;lettered themselves with the hope of seeing all Europe in combustion to sustain the rights of his Catholic lklajesty. But men of sense, who have not nursed similar chimeras, hold quite a different language. They look upon our possessions in the New World as lost for ever; whilst, if Spain had been willing to treat with her mimics, she might have obtained somewhat that would have diminish,st her debt, and would, of consequence, have been placed in a much lees difficult situation at present, and would have had less inquietude for the future. The acknowledgment of the empire of Brazil. to which Sub. sera and Palniella were opposed, will naturally follow the fall of the Portugune Ministry. It is added, that this acknowledgment of Brazilian independence is prepared by a most artful train of imlicy, in order to preserve the unity of the Colonies, some of which endeavour to separate themselves , and erect independent Republics : but this acknowledgment will not take place during the life of the reigning King; because at his death his eldest son, the Emperor of Brazil, will become legitimate heir to the throne. It is added, that England will guarantee the integrity of the Bra zilian empire: [From the Consfilitionnel of Monday.l lassost. Jaw. 23. It was on board the ship Ocean, where his iklajesty dined ytstee. day, that the change of Ministry was decided upon, though the dates of the Decrees of which I shall speak are of the 14th, Itith, and 20th of this month. 1). I.uia Pereyra de Sousa 13aradas, Minister of Justice, and of Ecclesiastical Affairs. will do what it is wished he should. I). Araujo Correa de Lacerda, !kiloliter for the Home Depart. menu, is a flexible man, but • good citizen, and incapable at acting against the interests of his King and Country. D. Antonio Mello. Minister of Finance, is a man of talent, acive, and a zealous partisan of the Constitutional System, under which he was employed. Admiral Monieyro Torres, a man in Fetus, w ho served for a long time in Brazil. devoted to the King and Constitution founded upon reasonable grounds, but whose operations may not be above several of our statesmen. He is named Minister of Marine and of Ultra- Matine Affairs. ' Comte Francisco Reenacts, Minister of War, is possessed of solid ihformatiJn, united in the highest degree with firnines and independence. Ile U. the Canning of PertugaL lie was Mister .during Cie ttonstitition of the Coles. M. Sisvestri Pitiheiro-lerreyrs was Minister for Foregn Afairs during the Constituuoual regime. A decree is talked of, which rants a full and entire aninest for . all political trespasses without reserve. Another decree has lade a greater sensation, if it really be in the Royal press, as I an as sured it is; it signifies that the Portuguese nation grants an say. turn to Spaniards, who should be persecuted in thear own cotatrg for political opinions or offences. Malmo, .1 Alf. 7. The communication made by the English Chargé d'Affa:s to our Court has occasioned the Councils of klinisteh, which slut terminated by sending notes to the influential powers of the loly Alliance, who. according to what was laid down at the Congers of Verona, was to guarantee - to each Sovereign the integrity of his possessions; but which ooly being sustained by very enerjetie reasons, it is true. according to what is affirmed, will have noel= result than that which etch Power shall have:propoied to itself ac cording to the interests which its policy may dictate to it to folow, • without attending to the claims of the Spanish Government. This state of things does not at all modify the dlsposition of mind of our Ministers; they have decided on sending off two ex peditions. which are to set out from Ferrol and Cologne, the for mer for Vera Cruz, against Mexico, and the latter for the Pacific • Ocean, in order to su'tain the part of Peru which we still &copy, and to reconquer Colombia. The difficulty of procuring the great financial resources which will be necessary to defray the expenses of these two expeditions does not stop them ; always reckoning on the estates of the clergy, which they dare not k, they have just created a Junta, corn. posed of Archbishops, s, and other ecclesiastical dignitaries, who are at present in Mad 4,,in order to regulate the subsidies % Ivo which the clergy should grant for these expeditions, and on the manner of &ducting those subsidies. GERMAN PAPERS. STOCKHOLM. JAN. 14. , In consequence of a new regulation, the Foreign Ambaasadors at this Court enjoy unlimited exemption from duties of custom on all goods directly addressed to them. CHRISTIANIA, JAW. The bankruptcy of • mercantile house at Leith has unfortunately obliged three considerable sod esteemed houses, viz. one at Drain. men and two at Christiana, to stop payment. Se. PETERSICROH, JAIN 19. That Emperor has been pleased t 3 grant to the Aliniatet of Finance, Hr. - Cancrin, an estate in Courland for 56 years, the an nual revenue of which is 20,009 itibleat Count Fersea, the oldest-Chamberlain in this Court, died lately. Ile was the only son of Count Feysen, so celebrated in the reign of Catherine 11. for the expedition against Poland, BR OSsELS, JAN. SI. We learn that Prussia is one of the States of the Continent which endeavours to establish an intercourse with the South American States, and has appointed M. John Eschenberg to the office of Prussian Consul at Buenos Ayres. litzota, Ft.. 3. ' The sea beats to-day with such fury against the dike, that great fears are entertained lest it should give way. The waves beat over the dike, which has sustained much damage in the long-continued storms. All the inhabitants of this district are in motion to em ploy means to avoid the danger as well as possible. EXCHANGE!? Waxers GS, FEB. I.—London, ; two US. 35 114. PiTUISBERGH, JAN. 18.—,Loodon, 13-16 ;—Paris. 1014. Amsrassau, Frs. 4.—London, 399; two months, 39 7. STATE' OF SPAIN. A letter from Barcelona, dated 15th January, states,' ' that assassinations are committed quite commonly in Cats lonia•by the partisans on each side. Lately, in the district of Argentera. in the jurisdiction of Tarragona ) the bodies of a Captain of Royalist volunteers, and four individuals of his company, who had been murdered, have been found; at Vilarrodona, the Mayor has had his throat cut in his own house. At Sanahueja, a young man who bad borne arms - under the Constitutional standards, and who had been ad mitted as a substitute in one of our regiments, bad obtained leave of absence, and had lately been to visit his family; whilst here he went to play at tennis, the favourite game of theinhabitanta. Upon hislaving the ill fortune to beat his opponents, they set up the cry of " Death to the A'rero!" and as they were proceeding to put their threats into exe cution, the young man, being obliged to defend himself, drew his poniard and struck to the ground two of the boldest. In the meantime the police came up, upon which the young man surrendered himself to them without resist ance ; he was shut up in a dungeon, where he was left loaded with irons. The populace soon after assembled round the prison, broke open the doors, placed a rope round the neck of the unfortunate man, and dragged him into the streets, where he expired in the most shocking torments, every one pressing forward to strike him with sticks, swords, poniards, & c. Since the restoration, it is computed that more than forty Negros have been assassinated, without the authorities having dared or been willing to take measures to punish the assassins. Letters dated 4th December are in town from Penitent buco. At that period the most perfect tranquillity pre vailed. They bring no news. Trade was dull. We are somewhat amused with a statement contained in one of the last numbers of the Jamaica Gazette. Dr. Orderson, the rector of Christchurch. Barbadoes, has, with praiseworthy zeal, published several long letters, which he addressed to Mr. Wilberforce and Mr. Stephen, eight or nine years ago, in vindication of the colonists generally, and especially to prove that the insurrection of the Slaves, in 1816, was produced by the Registry Bill, and not by the oppression of the proprietors. These letters, we dare say, are considered very interesting to the Rev. Gentle man's friends, though they are not in our judgment re markable for much - novelty of illustration or force of argu ment. The Jamaica Gazette, however, holds them to be of such tranuendent merit, that " undue influence" only could induce us to refuse them insertion. The state ment is— " From some undue influence the publication of them vu re. fused in the Courier and the British Press newspapers, published in London." We have one fact to state in our justification, which will,. we think, be sufficient with all but the Rev. Author him self perhaps. Printed in our smallest type, these letters, which relate to events passed by upwards of eight years, would have filled more columns of our paper than we could have devoted to that or any one purpose for a week. This will surely explain why we did not publish them, without supposing that we were exposed to any " undue influence." A Hamburgh Paper says, that Sir Walter Scott intends making a tour in Sweden and Norway, in order to make himself acquainted with the localities and customs of coun tries where he has laid the scene of a new work, which he is writing. CORA MECHANICS' INSTITUTIPH.--4 Mechanics' In.: stitution, on the plan of those of London and Glasgow, is about to be formed in Cork. The peoject originated with some gentlemen, members of the Literary and Scientific Society in that city, and a meeting on the subject has been since held, at which the Mayor presided, and which was attended by several of the most respectable inhabitants and merchants of Cork. There is every probability that the plan will be carried into e ffe ct, and that its consequen ces will be of a nature the most beneficial to the South of Ireland. WEST MEATH Cause.—True bills for wilful and cor rupt perjury have been found by the Grand Jury, against. Michael Corcoran, Margaret Shields, and Sarah Taylor the three principal witnesses to support the late prosecution of the Marquis of Westmeath, against Connell and others, at the late Commission for a conspiracy.—Dablia Paper. The bankruptcy of a mercantile house at Leith has un fortunately obliged three considerable and esteemed houses 'in Norway, viz. one at Drammen, and two at Christians, to atop payment. On Wednesday, one of those sturdy vagabonds, who levy contributions sometimes by begging, and at other times by bawling the contents of printed papers through the streets, was brought before the Magistrate, charged by a decent looking journeyman tradesman with crying through the town an account of his having been sold by auction at the instance of his wife, in the Cheshire market. The tradesman spoke in just terms of deep indignation at such an atrocious, act of foul falsehood, and the fellow was remanded for further inquiry, with a view to prosecu tion and punislnuent.-7'uesdav s Liverpool Advertiser. • Yesterday a Court of Directors was heht at the East India House. when Capt. Richard Rawes was sworn into the command of the ship Warren Hastings, consigned to China direct. Yesterday the despatches for Bombay and China. by the ship Inglis, Capt. Serie, were closed at the East I n di a House, and delivered to thrpurser of that olvip: • • , ( I .~ T i