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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. " L - 1 9"z;•' FRENCH PAPERS. (FrOul . the lifeseager des Chambres of Friday.) . _ (PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.) VIENNA; Nov. 15.—1 t is said that Prince Met ternich is on the point of changing his political sys :tem; having become sensible that the important eir c7—._ cumstifiices induced by the treaty of Adrianople re •, • quire_ very different measures from those which were employed at the time when the Emperor Alexander was at the head of the Holy Alliance. The new ideas of Prince Metternich arc ascribed to a strong but frank and kind remonstrance which an ancient diplomatist has addressed to him on the present state of Europe. Without being able to warrant the correctness of this fact, it is, however, interest ing to know what some persons in high offices say of this change in the Prince. They pretend that he is endeavouring to gain the Cabinet of London to assent to the absolute affranchisernent of the Greeks, with the free choice of their form of government. On the other hand, according to the same state ments, M. de Metternich will propose to the Cabi nets of the great Powers to make an unanimous de claration to the Government of Portugal, tending to put an end to the disorder which has been too long tolerated in that unhappy ceuntry, finally to arrange its differences with the Emperor of Brazil, and to give a guarantee to the nation that it shall hence forward be governed only by the laws and good order. Lastly, what will appear to you the most incre dible, M. de Metternich intends to impress on the French Government, that tile Great Powers being guarantees of the legal order established in France by the Charter, these Powers, in case that order should be disturbed by the new Ministry, would be obliged to interfere to secure the stability of a legal system. What are we to think of such a reso ution ? This tardy return to a system adapted to circum stances appears too reasonable for us to believe that M. de Metteinich has adopted it; but it is asserted that he is determined to try every thing, in order to reconcile himself with public opinion. v Perhaps he has received news from St. Petersburgh, which has informed him that the Emperor Nicholas is by no means disposed to grant to the Cabinets of Vienna and London to interfere in his relations with the Porte ; that he is willing to do his utmost that the Porte may ensure the liberty of commerce, pro vided they agree with Russia to grant to the Greeks a political existence which will enable them to help themselves in case of need. Perhaps, too, Russia has made proposals to Austria which would be more profitable to that power, than an inconsiderate per severance in the system of Wellington. At all events, we may be sure that the most important in terests are now the subject of the communications between the several Cabinets, and that each Minister considers the interests of his own country ,rather than the wishes of its allies. (From the Gazette de France, dated Nov. 23.) PAS►s, Nov. 27.—While the public funds conti nue to rise, the produce of the revenue also increases. The last month, compared to the same month of 1827, shows an increase of 3,000,000, and it is be lieved that there will be a considerable augmentation also in this month. Will the liberal journals please to explain to us why, daring the eight months of this year, the pro duce continually diminished, and why it has progres sively increased since the formation of the new ministry ? All the Journals of the faction, the Conslitutionnel, the Debats, and the Courier, the Journal du Com merce, the Tenths, &c., have agreed to disseminate all over France the same alarming reports. This coincidence is a remarkable circumstance, as well as the identity of the reports that are mentioned. A Royal declaration, modifying or abolishing the char ter, tl►e employment of the military force, the armed intervention of Europe, a change ►n the representa tive system,—these are the odious lies with which anxiety and alarm are excited in people's minds, when it is perceived that they are beginn►ng to grow calm, and to understand the real state of things. This infernal manoeuvre, which must come from a centre giving the impulse, is one of the most cri minal that can be employed. The magistrates have prosecuted Acts less criminal. To disturb the public tranquillity,—to excite in the nation distrust of royalty,—to calumniate the intentions-of the King, —to shake the confidence and the zeal of the public functionaries, —to check business and speculations, —to throw a whole nation into anxiety,—lastly, to falsify public opinion, and to alienate the electors from the Government, in order to enable them to adopt every thing factious that the country contains, —such is the immediate result of these sinister re ports, forged in the ateliers of the revolution. Is ►t necessary for us to contradict them ? Do they not confute themselves in the minds of all ho liest men, by the impure source from which they emanate ? They were designed to excite public in dignation, but will fall with its whole weight on the guilty authors of these infamous falsehoods. Faxscx FuNnis, PARIS, Nov. 27.—Five per Cents. 108 f. Ssc. 109 f. ; Three per Cents. 841. 60c. 50c. '7oc. 65c. ; Rink stock, 1,9151. ; Rentes de Naples, 94f. ; Royal Spanish Loan, 70/f. ; Rents Perp. d'Espagne, 55i ; llaytian Loan, 4001. Exchange on London—One month, paper, 251. 75c. ; money, 251. 70c. ; three months, paper, 251.60 e.; money, 25f. 55c.—Cours Authenti2ue. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (From the Gazette de France of Saturday.) PARIS, Nov. 27. A letter from Cracow states—" The Augsburg Gazelle announces, in an article dated from this city, that great military armaments are making in the in terior of Russia. But, thank Heaven, since peace is signed, we have not heard any thing of the kind." The Chevalier de Barbosa (says the Monileur) addresses a letter to 119, in which he requests us to state, that the News inserted in several journals re lative to the recognition of the Infant Don Miguel as King of Portugal by the Sovereign Pontiff is destitute of foundation. The Nuncio of his Holi ness at Lisbon may exercise, as he in fact does, the functions of his office in the name of the head of the Catholic Church, but it is not to be inferred from this that his diplomatic relations, which ceased when all the other diplomatic agents were recalled, have been renewed. (From the Quotidiennc.) PARIS, NOV. 27. Letters from Madrid of the 19th of this month, brought to Paris by an extraordinary courier, an nounce that the decree of amnesty to be issued by his Catholic Majesty was already drawn up, and that it would soon be published. If we may credit the contents of these letters, a small number of cri minals will be excluded from the amnesty—such as the chiefs of the rebellion of the army in the island of Leon on the Ist of January, 1820, the result of which was the publication of the Constitution — those who, at Madrid, compelled his Majesty to take the oath to that Constitution on the 7th of March the same year—and those who, in the Cortes at Seville, deposed their Sovereign. FLINCH FUNDS.—PAits, Nov. 28.—Five per Cents. 1081. 90c. 85c. '7oc. ; Three per Cents., 841. 55c. 50c. 45c. 40e. 20c. 10e. ; Rentes de Naples, 93f. SOc. 75c. 70c. 65e. 50c. 93f. 45c. 40e. ; Royal Spanish Loan, 78 7g iti; Rente Perpetuelle d'Espagne, 5511 f 54R1; Haytian Loan, 4051. 4101. 4151. 4101. Exchange on London, one month, 25f. 70c. ; three months, 25f. 55c. —Cours Authentique. (From the Allomeine Zeitung of Nov. 24.) VIENNA, Nov. 19.—Metalliques, 102 15-16 ; Four per Cent. ditto, 92 ; Bank Shares, 1,239. On the 27th inst. the following Gentlemen, Viz, JOHN WILLIAM LOWE, EDWARD CORKER, GRAH•M WILLMORE, JAMES ALEXANDER AULDJO, HENRY EMLY, JAMES STEEL LAWSON, WESTON STYLEMAN WALFORD, JOHN STORK, TURNER. GREEN, JOHN HOPTON RUSSELL CHICHESTER, and WILLIAM LEYLAND WOODS, ESVS. were called to the Bar by the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS .nk aock per Cent. Red. 3 per Cent. Cons—. 24 23Th 44 3 per Cent. Dial Red. 99N. 100 1 8 I per Cent. Ann Ditto, 1826 Ditto Scrip P ink L. Ann. 19% 11-16 Ditto 30 year: India Stock Ditto Bondi 67 69 pm. PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian BOIlliA Brazilian Bonds Buenos Ayres Bonds Chilian 80nd5............264 Eri Colombian Bonds _ _ _ THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCE. Neapolitan PerUviali Bonds Portuguese Bonds fAN .Prussian, Old Ditto, New Ditto, 1821 2O Russian Danish ';AI;, 4 4 Spanish, 1821 l2 111,4 34 %% % Greek Bonds — 182:3 Ditto, 1825 28% 9 t 'French Rentes, sp. c.lOBl. '7sc. Guatimala — Exchange 2sf. 70c. Mexican Bonds —l— 3 per cent. —f. —c. Ditto, 1825 , 3 1 ,4 411 4 3!(, , Exchange...... —t. —c. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AY ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Anglo Alex. Min. Co. (iss. at 51. pm.) £lOO 26,4 311 Ditto Subscription Bolanos Mining Co. .VOO 400 410 Columbian Mining Co. (iss. at 51. pm.) £35 5,4 IA 6,4 General Mining Association Real del Monte Mining Co. £4oo 75 Ditto Scrip ..e.. 7Y, .644 United. Alex. Min. Co. (iss. at 21. pm.) £393' I 3. PRICES OF IRISH STO( Bank Stock Consols, 3 per cent. Coy. Stock, 3)4 per cent 9B; Ditto, New - 4 per Cent lO l5 Gov. I)eb. 3 , ,j percent 98% Royal Canal Stock - Grand Canal Stock - City Deb. 4 per cent - Ballast Office Deb. 4p. c - MA Arrived. Due. O Ainerie , 0 O Brazil O Buenos Ayres 0 O Carthagena 2 Dublin 0 1 Flanders 0 1 France 0 O Guernsey &Jersey 0 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning... :3 minutes after 5. I Evening ...26 minutes after 5. THE COURT JOURNAL (No. XXXI.) of SATURDAY, Nov. 2S, contains:— The Alphabet of Beauty for 1830—The Cotillon, a Scene at Almack's—On Mustachios, by a Hussar—Epistle from Lady Seraphina at Brighton—The Hertfordshire Balls— Interesting Ceremony at Esher-place—The English at Brussels—Letters from London, comprising the Faaltion able " Sayings and Doings" of the Week—Hunting— Private Theatricals--Movements of Royalty, &c. &c. A Second Edition of the Court Journal, No. XXX., is now ready for delivery, containing :—The Article on the Galoppade—The Secret History of its Introduction iato England—The first rate Gallopaders pointed out and criticised, and the two factions into which its votaries are divided, duly distinguished ; Almackomani a—and a variety of other articles of the highest interest to the fashionable world. This new Weekly Journal of Fashion is published every Saturday Morning, for HENRY COLBURN, by W. Thomas, at the Office, 19, Catherine-street, Strand, price 10d., stamped, and supplied, postage-free, by all Booksellers and Newsmen. DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. South Sea Stock Old Annuities New Ditto Ex. Bills, .E. 1,000 2d. 67 69 pm. Ditto l:d. 66 68 pm. Ditto..., 500 2d. 67 69 pm. Ditto ........ lid. 66 68 pm. Ditta Small 2d. (17 69 pm. Ditto lid. 66 69 pm. Bank for Account India for Account Cons. for January 944%% 'YS, DUBLIN, NOV. ',a. St. Patrick Insur. (per sh.) Royal Irish Ditto National Ditto Patriotic Ditto Hibernian Bank Provincial Ditto ,Royal Irish Mine I Imperial Mine Mining Co, of Ireland l7!,c, Comnuarcial Buildings Arrived. Due. O Hamburg O Holland O Jamaica 0 O La uay ra 1 O Lisbon 0 O Mexico O Sweden 3 Waterford . ;AM. .4". • ribr LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 30, 1829. We have only room to-clay to call the atten- tion of our Readers to a copy of the Petition which the Cork Committee have prepared, and intend to present to Parliament, on the state of the Church Establishment of Ireland. It is a very able production, and does honour to the good sense and moderation of its framers. By the arrival of the London line of packet ship:Hann/bat, Captain HUBBARD, from New York, Papers have been received at the North and South American Coffee-house to the 4th November; they contain the following important intelligence relative to the Spanish expedition in Mexico : CAPITULATION OF THE SPANISH ARMY AT T ANIPICO. Vera Cruz Papers to the 20th Sept. have been received at the office of the Baltimore American, which contain an official copy of the Articles of Capitulation agreed upon at Tampico. The Editors of the American say they have been in duced to make a full translation of these Articles, inasmuch as they are in the principal points completely at variance with the accounts of the terms of surrender which had reached us last week, by way of New Orleans. It will be seen, that instead of the Spanish troops being permit ted to retain their arms, and to be conveyed to Havannah at the expence of the Mexican Go vernment, they were required to surrender their arms, flags, and munitions of war, to the Mexi cans; to be at the expellee of their own transpor tation to the Havannah, and also to be at the cost of maintaining and attending such of the sick soldiers as could not be immediately re moved ; in the additional Articles the stipulation will also be observed, that the Spanish General Officers, and troops, are solemnly pledged neve to return, or take up arms against the Mexican Republic. The terms of the capitulation show that the triumph of the Mexican forces over their enemies has been complete, and that the failure of the Spanish invading expedition has been as decisive as the warmest friends of South American liberty could desire : CAPITULATION OF THE SPANIARDS. At head- quarters at Puebla Viejo, of Tampico, on the 11 th of September, 1829, assembled, Major-General Pedro Landero, Colonel of Engineets, Jose Ignacio Yberri, and Colonel Jose Antonia Mejia, on the part of Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, General-in-Chief of the Mexican Army; and Brigadier-Gen. Jose Miguel Salomon, and Major Fuljencia Sales, on the part of Isidro Barradras, General of the Spanish Troops invading the Republic of Mexico, and having exchanged their respective powers, agree to the following articles:- 1. On the morning of the morrow, at nine o'clock, the Spanish forces shall evacuate the fort over the Bar, the troop with their arms, and the drums beating, in order to deliver them, together with their munitions of war, to the Mexican division ; they shall be commanded by Gen. Manuel de Mier y Teran, second in command of the army. The said troops shall join their Officers in Tam pico de Tamaulipas, the latter retaining their swords. 2. The day after, at six in the morning, the whole of the Spanish division which occupied Tampico de Tamau lipas shall march out, under command of General de Mier y Teran, and shall deliver up their arms, flags, and mu nitions of war, in the lower quarters of Altimira, the Of ficers retaining their swords. 3. The army and the Mexican Republic most solemnly guarantee the safety of the lives and private property of every individual of the invading division. 4. The Spanish division shall remove to the city of Vic toria, where they shall remain until they embark for the Havannah. 5. Permission is granted to the Spanish General to send to Havannah one or two Officers, to obtain transports to convoy his forces to the said port. Q. The Spanish General shall pavt st of the niain tenance of his division during its stay in this country, and also the cost of the transports. 7. The sick and wounded belonging to the Spanish di vision, who are unable to march, shall remain in the city of Tampico de Tarnanlipas until they can be removed to the hospital of the Mexican army, where they shall be taken care of at the cost of the Spanish army ; which army shall furnish a surgeon, corporals, and soldiers that may be thought necessary to take care of them. 8. The baggage necessary to the removal is reserved to the Spanish division, for the removal of which they are to pay the wages customary in the country, anti they shall also pay for their provisions. 9. The Colonel of the division of the Spanish army is charged with the fulfilment of this capitulation, with re spect to the troops on the Bar, and he will also see that a passage is afforded to the General who commands the point called Donna Cecilia. 10. General Mier y Teran will appoint two Officers who will facilitate his operations according to the foregoing articles. The above is agreed to and confirmed by the undersigned on the day and date before mentioned. PEDRO DE LANDERO. JOSE IGNACIO YBERRI. JOSE ANTONIO AIEJIA. JOSE MIGUEL SALOMON. FULGENCIO SALAS. I ratify the foregoing Capitulation, ANTONIO LOPEZ DE SANTA ANNA. I ratify the foregoing Capitulation, ISIDRO BARRADAS. ADDITIONAL ARTICLES. PROPOSED BY TICE SPANISH GENERAL.-If any Spanish forces belonging to the division of General Bar radas should arrive at this port, they will be prevented from landing, and this Convention shall be made known to them. PROPOSED BY THE MEXICAN GENERAL. Gene rals, Commanders, Officers, and troops, who belong to the division of Barradas, solemnly promise never to return, nor take up arms against the Mexican Republic. (Signed and ratified as before.) General BARRADAS had embarked with six of his officers on board a small schooner bound to the Havannah. General SANTA ANNA left Tampico in the British packet for Vera Cruz on 19th September. The following are extracts from German Papers received this morning:— ODESSA, NOV. 4. The plague, which lately manifested itself here anew, did not pass the 31st October, Nov. 1,2, and 3, the limits within which it was confined by the measures adopted by the Magistrates. Since then no other house has been closed. Of the persons who were placed in quarantine, partly with sym ptoms of the plague, partly as suspected, seven have died, and one has fallen sick. Besides this, a woman died on the 28th October, with suspicious symptom ,, , in one of the closed houses, in conse quence of which 18 persons who lived with her are placed under temporary observation, and two, whose cases are more auspicious, in the lazaretto in the port. The Magistrates take all possible precautions to hinder dangerous communications in the interior of the town, and have issued very detailed regula tions for that purpose. We learn from the quarantine at Dubossary that the plague has made no further progress. LEIPSIC, NOV. 18. General attention is excited by a liberal article, published in the Bee yesterday, viz " An Address of the Saxon people to. their King, on the opening i of the Diet for this year." This article, which severely criticises the anti quated lumber of many of our institutions, is said to ' have been written by the late Dr. Tschirner. A note of the Editor informs us that this address was to have been presented in the year 1820 to the late King, Augustus, which, however, was then pre vented, and it is therefore now published. The cir cumstance that this Address examines into anti quated prerogatives of the nobility, the corporation, even the Royal household, and that real defects are frankly, though respectfully blamed in it, may very probably cause the Bee to be deprived of its sting., as certain titled persons at Leipsic express them selves, that is to say, it may be either prohibited or placed under rigorous censorship at Leipsic. Those, however, who love the country beyond every thing, hope and pray that the good and just King may hear the voice of generous openness, respect, and truth, and he will doubtless honour it, for as his own actions and his own will are open and benevolent, the supplications of a faith ful people may be confidently laid before the throne. The appointment of the Minister of State, Baron Von Lindenau, to the post of President of the Chamber of Commerce, revives the hope that Saxony may join in the Prussian tariff. LOWER ELBE, NOV. 14. The restoration of peace in the East has evi dently left a great void in the political discussions of the day ; it is probably for the purpose of filling it up, that so much is said of alliances which are re presented as being under discussion, or even already concluded, between certain Courts. In this light we may probably view the statement that a conven tion is ready for signature between England and the Scandinavian kingdoms, which does not relate merely to the regulation of commercial interests. The visit of the Swedish Charge d'Affaires at the Court of London, too, and the frequent exchange of couriers between Stockholm, Copenhagen, and London during the last few weeks, are alleged as facts confirming the statement in question. We do not pretend to see farther into such things than others ; but it may be worth while to ask what objects these powers may have in view by a special alliance, under present circumstances. The following communication has been re ceived this morning from our Paris correspondent: " PARIS, NOV. 18. " A statistical work of very great value, from the acknowledged accuracy of its details, of which the French capital is the subject, has just appeared un der the immediate superintendance of the Count de Chabrol,'the. Prefect of the Department of the Seine, who is understood to have devoted his con stant personal attention to the subject during the fifteen years which this department has been under his administration. The Count takes credit to himself for the merits of the work in the following terms : If the various objects and the extent of " the collection be considered, it will, I believe, be " acknowledged that no country Las ever furnished " an accumulation of administrative details so varied " and so complete. I think it is well calculated " to remove all the errors arising from ignorance " of facts, to suggest useful views, and to form " reasonable opinions on all subjects connected with " public affairs. Many of the facts disclosed in these volumes, four of which have now been presented to the pub lic, will strike the English reader as somewhat ex traordinary. For instance, there were born in Paris ' during the year 1826, the last to which the tables apply, 29,970 children, of whom 19.168, some what less than two-thirds, were born in wedlock ; and the same year, while the total number of deaths amounted to 25,341, 15,647 of them, or more than three-fifths, took place in the public hospitals. The number of deaths in hospitals, as compared with those which take place in private houses, appears to be constantly increasing. On the average of the four years, immediately preceding 1826, it is as eight are to - fifteen. And in regard to marriage, it is a general inference from the whole of the tables, that every fourth person you meet in Paris, is a bastard. _ . " Suicide seems also to be making alarming pro gress. In IS2I there were 28, iu 1825 and 26, the numbers had risen successively to 40 and 49. It is the same with deaths arising from accidental violence. For the three years in question, they are 679, 712, and 810. " As to natural deaths, the year 1825 was re markable for the ravages of the mull-pox, the number of victims having risen from 250 and 260, the usual number, to 2,193, as if the practice of vac cination had been abandoned. But if neglected for a time, the solicitude of parents had no doubt been awakened by the danger, as it appears that the num. ber of gratuitous vaccinations, which in 1824 wa s only 1,620, had risen during this unfortunate year, 1825, to 3,047, and was maintained at 3,013 dur ing the following year, although the evil had then ceased. It is shown also by the tables, that the small-pox is chiefly formidable to children of from one to three years of age. " During the years alluded to, the number of births exceeded that of deaths by 13,184, from which a corresponding increase of population might be inferred ; but the elements of a population com posed like that of Paris are so numerous, so complicated, and so fluctuating, that it is ex tremely difficult to establish a datum on which perfect reliance can be placed. Thus to speak only of one cause of error, of about thirty thou sand children born every year in Paris, from 6 to 7000 are condemned by nature to die within fifteen months of their birth ; and for the most part it is not in Paris, but with nurses in the country that they die, and that their deaths are verified. On the other hand, there arrive every year from the country and the provincial towns a number of in dividuals of mature age and strength, whose births do not appear in the Paris records, and who on an average attain to a good old age. " It is necessary in France, on account of a va riety of administrative operations, to have a fixed and precise measure of the population of each town and district, so as to maintain a certain de finite proportion with other towns and districts, and the real uncertainty as to the fact is supplied by a leg a l fiction, approaching as nearly as possible to the truth. For the present the legal population of Paris is 890,431. " There are then nearly 900,000 individuals whose daily subsistence is to be insured, who are to be supported in weakness and solaced in misery, whose conduct is to be watched over, and their dis orders repressed, and who are to be protected and defended against each other, and their state and condition guaranteed from their birth to their burial. " For the cure of souls there are 577 priests, but it is said that the number ought to amount to 764. The means of education appear to be ample and extensive. For primary instruction there are eighty charity schools, attended daily by 12,000 children of either sex, besides 403 elementary schools, some gratuitous to the number of 112, the rest not gra tuitous, but containing collectively, 25,582 scholars. For instruction in the second degree, there are seven colleges and 118 boarding schools for boys, in which there are 7,669 scholars; and 329 boarding schools for girls; in which there are 10,240 scholars. In the higher branches of education there are twenty public establishments, the greater part of which are maintained at the expencee of the State, in which instruction is given by 317 professors, and received by 17,813 students. Thus instruction of various kinds is distributed daily to 73,222 young persons, amounting to about one-twelfth of the whole popu lation of Paris. " On the other hand, to maintain order and security among this population there ate 11 prisons, in which arc constantly detained, for longer or shorter periods, about 3,400 malefactors or other offenders against the laws. To this number must be added the pro portion sent by Paris to the galleys at Brest, Tou lon, and Rochfort, making an annual contingent of about 200 convicts. " The public hospitals of Paris receive annually from 55,000 to 60,000 sick, and provide for from 18 to 20,000 foundlings, who receive immediate attention in the hospitals, and are from thence sent to the country to nurse. These hospitals also pro vide for from 20 to 25,000 paupers, whether old and decayed, or young and infirm, assuring them food, clothing, and shelter for the rest of their days. They receive also the insane to the number of about 800 per annum, the men being to the women in the proportion of about 350 to 450. " We are informed also, by the researches of M. de Chabrol, that there was consumed at Paris, during the year 1826, 81,250 oxen, 13,368 cows, 74,533 calves, 402,717 sheep, and 90,830 swine, making altogether, 108,500,000 pounds of meat, and affording something less than six ounces to each individual per diem. " The taxes paid by the inhabitants of Paris to the Public Treasury are as follow : Domain, Registration, or Land Tax 24,406,691 Customs and Salt Tax Indirect Taxes, nearly equivalent to our Excise 24,504,221 Post-office Lottery 6,975,877 Direct Taxes, nearly equivalent to our Assessed Taxes 23,377,137 Produce of the Tax on Gaming Houses 5,500,000 Total 91,758,219 equal in sterling money to about 3,670,0001. From this statement it appears that Paris alone pays ra ther more than one-tenth of the whole taxes of France, and that its inhabitants pay, one with an other, 103 francs, or about 41. per annum, to the Public Treasury, which is fully three and a half times as much as the proportion paid by the rest of the inhabitants of France, whose public contribu butions are found, by these tables, to amount only to 28 francs, 4 centimes a-head. :In addition to these public taxes, Paris levies of its own inhabitants a local or municipal lax, called an octroi, amounting to about 25,000,000 of francs, or 1,000,0001. ster ling, which, divided among 900,000 inhabitants, gives 27 francs, 70 centimes a-head, so that the ac cessory tax in Paris is nearly equal to the whole amount of individual contributions in the depart ments. A calculation founded on the statements in these columns makes the annual expenditure of the popu lation of Paris amount to 894,034,193 francs or about 35,760,0001., which gives 1020 francs, 98 centimes, or rather more than 401. a head, as the annual expenditure of each individual, out of which he pays something more than twelve per cent. in public taxes and municipal contributions. The fourth of these volumes contains also a great number of tables regarding the meteorology of the atmosphere of Paris during the years 1824, 25, and 26, with the state of the waters of the Seine, and the amount of river navigation during these years; also a statement of the productions of the soil in the neighbourhood of Paris, a view of Parisian industry, and a variety of details as to the extent of the new buildings in the capital, from the year 1821 to the year 1826, explanatory of the causes by which si milar works have been interrupted and diminished since the latter period. " A fifth volume is promised by M. de Chabrol, which, besides the annual documents relating to changes in the population, will contain a variety of facts interesting to the agriculturist, particularly in the horticultural department, to conclude with an abstract of the administrative history of Paris since the period of the restoration." The repugnance of the inhabitants of Car diganshire, and other counties in 'Wales, to the improvements about to be introduced into the system of Welsh Judicature, would lead us to believe they cannot be aware what those im provements are, did we not know the amount of stupid prejudice that exists among persons liv ing at a distance from the metropolis, or any provincial centre of civilization, against any change in to national i ns ti tut i ons, h owever ill cal culated the ends for.which they were designed. T. divide Wales into two or three Circuits, in each of which justice may be admi nistered by tin Judges at the same pe- riods, with the same regularity, and with the same allowance of time for the business, as is the case throughout EHgland, will be a most obvious improvement upon the present system of Welsh Judges, (to look for perfection in whose legal attainments would heretofore have been as idle as to expect flesh and blood in a Welsh rabbit), and upon the hurried and unsatisfactory manner in which the Welsh Circuits have been des patched after the English Assizes had termi nated. Without making individual comparisons between the Judges of the King's and those of the Welsh Courts, there is, at all events, an im propriety in the same person being alternately Judge and Counsel ; and one or both of these circumstances seems to have operated so strongly upon the greater part of the Welsh Attornies, that it is a well-known fact that the Cause Lists of Shropshire, Herefordshire, and the other ad joining counties, are burthened constantly to an oppressive and unfair degree with the Welsh issues, in which the parties avail themselves of the option they enjoy of trying the causes before an English Judge and Jury. If, therefore, already a great portion of the Welsh civil business is dis posed of on the Oxford Circuit, it is an addi tional reason for laying small stress on the com plaints of those who abuse the English Juris prudence with their mouths, whilst they use it, so far as they can, in their practice. The Celtic race, of which the Welsh form a part, are proverbially litigious. Education and intercourse with their neighbours have of course removed to a great extent the nationality of the higher classes, but there are few countries in Europe where the labours of the schoolmaster are more needed than in Wales. That the country should have been annexed to England ever since the reign of EDWARD 1., and tha t the English language should at this day be so very partially diffused, speaks but little for the degree of civilization to which the Welsh have arrived. It is a joke to talk of Welsh literature : it exists only in pedigrees. If the law in force in Wales be essentially the same as in England, there can be no good reason why its administration should be diffe rent. Our judicial system may be far from per fect, but one principal ingredient in the excel lency of the law of any country is its uniformity, and its equal operation on the inhabitants of all provinces and districts. The Courts of Great Sessions in Wales, and the Palatine jurisdic tions of the counties of Durham, Lancaster, and Chester, are anomalies fertile in inconveniences and expenses, and which ought to be merged in the supreme authority of the Courts in West minster Hall. In the feudal times the admini stration of justice was considered a part of the Royal prerogative, which might be assigned in parcels to the aristocracy, to be exercised at their good pleasure, pretty much like the tolls and other privileges which were also given them by separation from the prerogatives of the Crown. The national benefit was then little looked after, for the time had not yet arrived when Sovereigns were heard to make the declaration pronounced by more than one Monarch of the House of Hanover—" that the Crown was a trust to be held and exercised for the welfare of the people." But now, when the principles of jurisprudence are beginning to he understood, when we see statesmen and lawyers busily en gaged in endeavouring to remodel various branches of our municipal law, and that very important changes have been already effected, the progress of reform cannot be stopped by the opposition of ignorance or self-interest, whether it proceed from Wales or England. The jurisprudence of every country should be adapted to the state of society it is intended to govern ; and standing, as we do, at the confluence of more streams of knowledge than ever since she world began, flowed into the channel of civilization, it would indeed be our shame and reproach among nations,if we did not avail ourselves of the multitude of our means to bring our laws nearer and nearer to that standard of perfection of which the model is that universal law of nature, " whose seat is the bosom of GOD, whose voice is the harmony of the world ; to which all things do homage, the very least as feeling her care, the greatest as not exempted from her power ; all with uniform consent admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy." There have been no arrivals at the Government Offices this morning, with the exception of the customary ones from Paris and Brussels. It is very currently reported that the Duke of WELLINGTON and Lord ABERDEEN'S visit to Woburn Abbey, has for its object a junction of the present Admi nistration, with the leading and most influential Members of the Whig party. The Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE en tertained a select party to dinner on Saturday, at their residence in Bushy Park. The Earl of ABERDEEN left town yesterday afternoon on a visit to the Duke of BEDFORD, at Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire. Previous to his departure, the Russian Ambassador bad an interview with the Noble Earl at Argyle House. The Duke of WELLINGTON and a select party were expected to arrive at Woburn Abbey yesterday, to have a few days' shooting. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER ar rived in town yesterday, from a visit to Mr. BINGHAM BARING, at his residence, at Brandon, in Norfolk, where the Right lion. Gentleman had been staying during the last few days, in company with the Duke of WELLINGTON and a select party. The Duke of GLOUCESTER IS expected shortly to visit the Marquis of SALISBURY, at his seat at Hatfield, Hertfordshire, where a grand entertainment is to be given. The French Ambassador and the Spanish Minister had interviews with the Earl of ABERDEEN on Saturday, at the Foreign Office. LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY) .• COURT OF KING'S BENCII. f DILLON V. LANGLEY: , • This was an action against the late sheriff of the cousti of York, by the assignees of a bankrupt, named Thoto Jefferson, who had carried on the business of a ba r " dasher at Pickering, in that county. The whole ques t° turned on the date of the Act of Bankruptcy. The se' tion was brought to recover the amount of certain effe e° belonging to the bankrupt, which were taken in We e " tion by an officer of the sheriff, under a writ of execution, A verdict was ultimately taken by consent for th e plaintiff—Damages, 8101., subject to the oOlion of t he Court upon the case. ROLLS COURT. The MasTER of the ROLLS sat in the Rolls Court, ja Chancery-lane, to-day. Upwards of one hundred an, d fifty town and country Solicitors were sworn in before his Honour. The Court wis occupied the whole morrun.g . with hearing petitions, none of which p o ss esse d any pubi l ' interest. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. THE KING V. BRINKWORTII. The LORD CHIEF BARON sat at 'Westminster this morn ing to try causes. This was an undefended cause, and verdict passed for the Crown. THE KING v. SOLLEY JOSEPH MANNING. The SOLICITJR-GENERAL stated that this wad an icib r ‘ mation tiled against the defendant for selling to pub:itlin°;;; a certain article which greatly superseded the necessity . using malt in the brewing of porter. On condition that the defendant should give up for ever manufacturing g ( r i even disposing of any more of the article in question, $ n that the Crown should take a verdict generally on this '°"' formation, the Crown had consented to suspend any further, inquiry. The Solicitor-General hoped that this wool ° operate as a warning both to manufacturers of this nvo t objectionable article, and to any publicans who may 11 0° , been in the habit of consuming it, because the Crown ha i determined to put a stop to the practice, so that his MA' esty's subjects might have that nutritious beverage in 'the porter they drank they had a right to expect. Verdict for the Crown generally. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. DOE V. JORDAN. This case, which is an ac ti on o f e j ec t m ent of no inte rest except to the parties concerne d, occupied the Cou rt the whole morning, and was not concluded when o ur reporter left. pi , • WINTER ASSIZES. HOME CIRCUIT. (Before Mr. Baron GARROW and Mr. Baron BoLL.0( 0.) • Hertfordshire—Monday, Dec. 7, at Hertford. Essex—Wednesday, Dec. 9, at Chelmsford. Kent—Monday, Dec. 14, at Maidstone. Sussex—Saturday, Dec. 19, at Lewes. Surrey—Monday, Dec. 25, at Kingston-upon-Thames. WINDSOR, Nov. 29. This forenoon the KING, attended by the LORD STEW' ARD and the members of his household in waiting, bear d Divine Service at the new Chapel Royal. The Rev. J%lr. SEYMOUR officiated, and Mr. Hoax presided, as usual, at the organ. Ilis MAJEsTv has, owing to the unfavourable state of the weather during the last week, been prevented ft° taking his daily exercise, and, consequently, confined t ° his apartments at the Royal Lodge, where his MAJEsr,', as usual, devotes a great portion of his time to public s'l and foreign despatches. vr- et On Tuesday last the Marquis of lICADFORT arri the Royal Lodge, and returned to his MAJESTY the Ordeir of St. Patrick, with which the late Marquis was ho riOr t: The rumours in daily circulation relative to the in.'" alterations, &c., carried on at the Castle, are net mud) be relied on. It is now said that the Kixo's apartrnen_its arc not ready for his reception, and that it is not exP ecw" that he will take up his residence at the Castle before the middle of the ensuing month. - - The Neapolitan Minister transacted business on Saturday at the office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Venice Preserved is preparing for represen tation at Covent-garden in perfect costume, both as it re lates to entirely new and appropriate scenery and dream likewise. The Messrs. GaiLvE have painted somede' lightful and vivid scenes, from accurate drawings taken edo° the spot; and Miss Asmorr and Mr. H EAD h a ve pr e p p od the dresses. CHARLES KEMBLE, with his 0 01 taste and delicacy of feeling, under existing c i ea tnstt c -el . will act the character of Pierre. WARD performs far e ' 7 ' and Miss FANNY KLMBLE, of course, personates the iate resting Belvidera. The new canal and rail-way, communicating between the Cann Slates and the New Quay in Catwater, NUiveagregoonpse,ncedonotnainthineg2lOarthgeirlisuta.nbtyititelsieopflpssaavge in of s b to o n t and and slates from the quarries. All the artificers with their va rious implements, and attended with music, flags, tce. ac; conipanied the waggons. A great increase to the trade 0f the port is expected from these improvements; the CO ° Slates being known to be of so superior a quality, and be coming in general use in London and other cities of the empire. EXTINCTION OF THE IRISH BOARD 01 CUSTOMS.—Wa announced some time since that the WO' Board of Customs would cease to exist after the sth Jau. We find by the last Cork Chronicle, that an order hue been issued from the Custom-house of that City, apprisivg the merchants and traders that after that day the functioos of the Dublin Board are to cease, and that all applicatio n ' relating to the revenue of customs are to be addressed t° the General Board of Customs in London. The Irish Excise Board, as we before stated, will be no longer 10 existence after the sth of January.—Dublin Morning Register. Frturr.—The present, we believe, has bee" a year of almost unexampled plenty in the article of I .o ' and it has accordingly become of comparatively little 0 4 lue as regards prices. A commercial gentleman inforn r us that in Devonshire, where immense quantities of ei ue : are annually made, any person may at present ° boar , ' barrel of this drink by sending two empty cask'. ° l ': is returned to the party filled with an excellent hoversg e .' o , - ; highly prized by the Cockneys on their rural eac ur ' i ihe into the suburbs, and the other cask is retained I° s ,, e full value thereof. In the south of Scotland apple' 7„:d also been amazingly abundant, and are served up s' ,7„-e to the pigs. So dainty has grumphy become by his on this delicate diet, that he occasionally turns upupst nose at the mess with all the Lentenr of a pal- O P'; gour mand, and it is found necessary to mix the ApPi,!.- with potatoes to cheat his swineship, or to se rve as a to the meal. In the North, we have been less indulg e ' with fruit, but still it :a unusually plentiful, and 10 0 " served several carts of apples in our market yesterday morning. In some gardens northward of the Ne°'; which are rarely visited by the sunny blooms that in the vales of Devonshire, and where formerly 11PP'e" seemed only to be " trying to grow" (as MaccuLLocrissY9 of corn in certain of our districts) very fair crops bale, been obtained, manure rain and blast. Nuts have bee" decided failure, and we regret this the mere because Inr' poor persons used to turn an honest penny by denuding the countless thousands of hazle bushes that clusw round our hills and lakes.—lnverness Courier. THE SEASON.—The weather continuesn l°° propitious to agricultural work, and the country presel'!g an appearance of general employment; the potato croP for the greater part well got in and in good order; large breadth of ground already begins to shew whea t its surface, and the plough is busily engaged i n prepss.% tion for further sowing. The wheat stubbl es are 1.") e turning up for barley, and, in some parts of th e Liberties, oats have been sown fur early crops. Un til the pr, ceding three or four days an almost unusual mildness 11 veiled. In the gardens, vegetation, as if in Springs in many instances, within the liberties, commenced fruit trees had shewn buds, and strawberries blossotneua Since Sunday a keen wind from the N.E. has set ins . w n e at present there is every likelihood that a fa ll of suo ter not distant, which will announce that the reig n of win bath began.— Cork Constitution. fiono LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY.--The opera. in cotton have not been so extensive during the presetti_ve they were during the preceding week. Still the sales 13 1 a oi, been numerous, amounting to 14,350 bags. Marsi:, 3 be r Bahia, Egyptian, and Surat are to d.i per lb. I o t than they were last week : other descriptions are with too variation. The easterly winds, which have prevailed sion Monday, have prevented arrivals from the westward. only Wednesday not a single vessel entered the port; a nj one on the following day. Not a single sail vessel haseroairt rived to-day; whilst nine steamers have c ome in troy Dublin, Belfast, and other ports in Ireland. It is W I . is of remark, that there are only four Americ an Yeese:tbo port,—a circumstance which has not occurre d sin c v year 1815.' ~K9 ro- ,