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of Oleron, was agreed to by a majority of 229 against 7. The Chamber adjourned to this day. SITTING OF 31ST MkIICII. M. Dupin, President, in the chair. The debate on the project of law relative to the treaty with the United States of America was re sumed. M. R. Dumas recapitulated the circumstances of the treaty, and after replying to some of the objec tions put forward by Messrs. Boissy d'Anglas and Bignon, voted for the project. M. Boissy d'Anglas said a few words in reply to the preceding speaker s and Persisted in his assertion that no other Power bar?, given an indemnity to the United States from the same motives as those which led to 43 ,ie treaty now in question. The hon. de p ut y -Ft i r `ler observed that the Chamber had not been . made acquainted with the report of any ad utustrative commission charged with examining the American claims in 1831, and which report, if made known to hon. deputies, might tend to in fluence their decision. As to that report, the com mission proposed to allow only 12,000,000. The Minister of Foreign Affairs said that the report alluded to by the hon. deputy had been com municated to the commission named by the Cham ber to examine the project of law. Boissy d'Anglas replied, that laying it before the commission was not sufficient, it ought to have been communicated to every member of the Chamber. The Minister of Foreign Affairs—Gentlemen, I rise to support a project of law which is founded upon equity, reason, and the reciprocal interests of both countries. he opponents of the measure have, in eoodemning it, passed a high eulogium on the go vernment of the Restoration for having, as they say, preserved the country from the burden which this project is about to lay on it. But before admiring this courageous resistance of the claims of foreign ers, so singularly attributed to the government of the Restoration, let us see if the fact be true, and before joining in the praise, let us ascertain if it be merited. Here the Minister recapitulated the principal facts, as they are detailed in the preamble of the project. The Sentinelle des Pyrenees of the 27th instant, gives a letter from Madrid of the 19th, from which we take the following :—" It has during the last two days been reported that our government has decided to enter into a contract with the house of Wilson and Co. of London, for a foreign loan, and that M. Gargollo, Director of the Sinking Fund, has preferred sending in his resignation to taking part in a foreign loan, while he conceived it not im possible to effect a national loan. However, a journal of yesterday asserts that the question is not finally decided upon, and expresses a hope that at last the resolution of the government will be - in fa vour of the commerce of Spain. Thirty of the militia belonging to Ham have fallen victims to a most infamous act of treachery. They were informed that twenty rebels were concealed in a convent near the town, and they immediately proceeded to dis lodge the refugees. On a sudden they were assailed by about .500 insurgents, who came out of the con vent and brutally massacred them. Civil war has become so determined that there is every reason to far that it will be of long duration." The Memorial Bordelais of the 27th has the fol lowing from Bedous, dated the 22d :—" Three Spaniards who have just arrived here, relate that on the 13th instant, 60,000 cartridges were found in the convent of San Domingo, the superior of which was arrested, and 2,500 in the convent of San Joseph. On the same day 1,000 Milicianos were armed there ; a battalion of insurgents from Na varre, with a Colonel, his two sons, who have been shot, a Lieutenant-Colonel, and a Captain, have been surprised and taken prisoners by the Queen's troops at Estella. The Colonel and the other two officers have not been shot, because they promised important revelations. In the convent of Leyre, situated in the valley of Verdun, a seizure has been made of a quantity of military equipments, 1,000 muskets, and a considereble sum of money, and 300 muskets at Gousseval Sarrassa." The Indicatcur of Bordeaux of the 27th instant, has the following ofthe 25th from Bayonne :—" The faction of Biscay is entirely dispersed, but still the vexations of the inhuman Zabala are not at an end. It is said that General Espartero, in consequence of ar rests made by Zabala at Leigneitio, has taken seve ral of the Carlist inhabitants of the same town as hostages. In consequence of the entry of the insur gents into Vittoria, the Queen's troops made fifty two prisoners, including seven officers, who were shot, as well as a man who fired at a conscript from his window, by order of General Osma." It has the following from Madrid, dated the 19th instant :—" By a Royal decree, the Queen has named the Patriarch of the Indies Don Manuel Frayle, Bishop of Siguenza. By another decree Don Jose Maria Manescahas been named President of the Royal Court of Madrid. Don Pedro Vellali is named Corregidor of Madrid, and the Duke de Gor Prefect of this capital. Major-Gen. Miguel Tacon has been appointed a Lieut.-General and Captain- General of the Isle of Cuba." This journal has also the following letter from St. Jean-de-Luz, dated the 23d :—" On Sunday 400 men, badly dressed, having two monks at their head, arrived at Lessaca, coming from the mountains : their first care was to repair to the church, where one of the monks, chief of the band, laying down his arms, performed mass. When this was over, a contribution was levied on the village in money and provisions ; and in the afternoon, the poor inhabitants having satisfied all the demands that had been made upon them, saw their visiters move off again to the mountains. These facts are related by an eye-witness worthy of credit." The Helvitie of Porentruy of the 25th instant says—" The French Ambassador has recently made a journey to Zurich, to declare that the conduct of the Vorort, in the affair of the Poles, had obtained the entire approbation of the French Government." The Swiss Patriot of the same date relates, that M. de Rumigny has received new instructions from his Court relative to the Poles, several of whom, on the preceding day, received passports to return to France." The 'Berlin State Gazette of the 24th instant publishes the treaty signed by Russia, Austria, and Prussia, relative to the expulsion of political re fugees. Prince William of Prussia, brother of his Majesty, is definitively appointed Governor of Mentz, and General Muffling Vice-Governor. The following is the substance of a report from General Duvivier, Commander-in-Chief of the French forces at Boujeia, dated the 11th instant : —" Having been for a long time threatened with a general attack from the Arab tribes, who during the festival of the Ramadan have been accustomed to come and perform their devotions at the marabout or convent or Gouraya, which, after having been formed into a fort, was retained by the French, the General determined to make an excursion, in order to convince the enemy that he was prepared to re ceive them. Consequently, on the sth, at 3in the morning, he went out with infantry, cavalry, and artillery, amounting to 1,070 men, with three field * pieces. His first attack was upon the village of Klailuna, whence he drove out the enemy, after causing them a loss of 99 men. He then recon noitred four other villages in the neighbourhood, after which, perceiving some groups of Kabailes in the distance, he resolved to make a feint of retreat ing, in order to draw them after him, and conse . quently made a retrograde movement upon the point which the General calls Le Moulin de De mons. His anticipations were realized. The Ka bailes debouched in great masses upon his rear, and on passing the river beyond the village which had been cleared at the beginning of the day, made a rush upon tin i4r i ench, which, however, was repulsed with gteaTross".l.b%4:4 /enemy, the General having only a Aw men wo -- ho were sent back to Boujeia. He coritintrucD ht retreat in echellons, in order to reaeXthe; p where he had left a reserve of 478: - ' l l;iotn the orders of Com mananda.nt Ge . e another halt at the foot of a hich descends from wci0,,i,j4,10 the Moulin de Demons ; establishing his right on the summit, his left uniting with the forces under Commandant, Gentil. Persuaded that the Kabailes would easily gain the gorges on his right, he reserved the fire of his field-pieces, and masked his caval in order that they might not be deterred fr om pursuing their plan. They executed this movement, and were attacked by the French with their musketry, and the firing had con tinued for nearly three quarters of an hour, when the General ordered a charge to be made upon them by the 3d Chasseurs, under Captain Herbin, sup 'ported by the light infantry of the 59th and the Zouaves, who took the enemy by surprise, and cut down great numbers of them. The Kabailes were forced to fly with such precipitation, that, contrary to their usual custom, they left their killed behind them. They, however, reassembled in masses, and were waiting an opportunity to return and carry off their dead comrades. Upon this the General or dered the fire of the field-pieces to be opened, and they were so well served that they made dreadful havoc. The battle on the left was attended with equal success, and after a contest of another half hour the whole of the Arabs disappeared, and the General and his forces returned to Boujeia, after constantly marching and fighting from two in the morning to half-past one in the afternoon, and sus taining no greater loss than twenty-four men wounded. Amongst the enemy's killed were the Sheik Hadji Hhammana and his son. The General adds, that the results of this expedition cannot fail to be very advantageous, as many of the peaceful Kabailes, who had been constrained by the war party of the tribe, had already offered to enter into treaties." The Eclaireur de la Mediterranee gives the fol lowing letter from Oran, dated the sth inst. :—"We have received accounts from the Commandant Ab dallah, announcing that the prisoners have been de livered up to him. He was well received at the camp of Abdelkader, who accepted the proposed conditions of peace, of which the following are the principal:—‘ All hostilities between the natives and the French have ceased. The Arabs may enter freely into all places occupied by the French, and sell provisions. French coin shall be current among the Arabs.' This last arrangement has not hitherto been admissible, and every Arab who was found in possession of French money, was con demned to death, as having had intercourse with the French. This treaty will be very beneficial to us. It insures us a supply of corn, wool, kermes, barley, and other articles. On the other hand, it secures to Abdelkader his command over all such tribes as we acknowledge him to be the chief of. The troops went out to meet Abdallah, who, how ever, did not arrive till the evening, bringing with him the eight prisoners taken in the late action." The Temps, referring to the rumours of a cold ness between the cabinets of London and Paris,and the increasing intimacy between the latter and that of St. Petersburgh, says—" An alliance with Russia is unpopular in France, and not without reason. That country is too far off to do us much good or much harm. It is worthy of romance to believe in her power against the British possessions, or in so much devotedness in our favour as to consume her slender treasury, her powerless battalions, her fleet, and her diplomacy, to share with us the empire of the world, and to obtain from our good will the supremacy of the East, which she usurps at pleasure. Neither the interest nor the strength of France are on this side. But to preserve the alliance of Eng land, it is necessary to remain faithful to the princi ples on which it was founded. The revolution of July is the mother of reform. Both are concerned ; the same blow which strikes one attacks the other in its existence. It is because France is no longer governed by the friends of the regeneration of July that the power of the Whigs vacillates in their hands. The prolongation of the Doctrinarian's reign must end in bringing back the Tories to public affairs. The former are well aware of this ; but who knows ? Perluips they desire it ! We do not de ceive ourselves as to the attachment, more or less disinterested, of the British press to abstract prin ciples of liberalism in politics. But liberalism in affairs is its chief point in view, because it sincerely represents public opinion. The ministry well knows what is to be done to preserve and to cement the British alliance. It knows also what will be lost in losing this alliance. It must be supposed that it is anxious to gain time in deferring the Customs' Bill. May the composition of a new Chamber, and, we sincerely add, of a new ministry, give a chance of deciding this difficult but inevitable question. It seems to us, at all events, that in 1834, at the point to which civilization has advanced, a divorce between France and England would be a monstrosity, an in sult to Providence." The Journal des Debats has the following : " For some time there has existed a concerted plan to destroy the public confidence in the continuance of the alliance between England and France, while, in truth, we have not been able to find the slightest shadow of a pretence for the extravagant observa tions which have made their way even into the Bri tish Parliament. It is true they came through Mr. O'Connell, who is scarcely ever listened to except when speaking upon the affairs of Ireland. With the organs of Toryism the dissolution of the Anglo- French alliance is a favourite topic, but so worn out that it no longer produces any effect ; it is a con stant appeal to the old prejudices on the rivalry of the two nations, a dotage which is not worthy of being refuted ; but it is strange and grievous to find journals that pique themselves upon a patriotism even more sensitive than ours, using their utmost endeavours to support the impotent efforts of Lord Aberdeen and Lord Londonderry. We maintain that there is not, there cannot be, any relaxation of that indissoluble bond which unites France of 1830 and reformed England. The foreign policy of the two Governments may, on secondary questions, be regulated by the more or less immediate interests of the two kingdoms, but there is not a single serious question on which their policy does not assume that identity which is the consequence of our common institutions, and at the present day rules over all the combinations of Europe." ORGANISED RESISTANCE TO THE ASSOCIATIONS' SUPPRESSION BILL. The delegates of the associations established in Paris, and in the departments• ; have met, and have agreed to the following address, which is calculated to produce no small stir in the provinces. This address is to be distributed all over France, and more particularly in those districts where political associations a►re most numerous : " The law against the associations does not merely attack a party. It violates the rights and interests of all. It destroys for all the best means of amelioration and liberty. It is a law against social order. It attacks in , a special manner that mass of citizens whose wants and sufferings obtain for them the sympathy of all just men. It deprives the ‘proktaires' of the most proper instrument to aid their social and political emancipation. " This law against the associations is less to be looked on as a law of police against republican so cieties than as an attack made by the privileged classes on the working population—as, in fact, a new effort to brutalise and animalise them. " It is for this reason that all associations owe it to themselves and to society to resist this law by all the means in their power. " If the question at issue was merely a duel be tween a political party and the police, the associa tions might, in their resistance, be governed by cir cumstances and act accordingly ; but when, as in the present case, the public weal is concerned, then the duty of all is clearly traced. " Farther than this, we have this time not merely to cope with an internal, but also with a foreign enemy. The law against the associations is a sup plement to the project of law for erecting detached forts round Paris, commanded as it was by the Holy Alliance, emanating from it, and therefore really an act of invasion. _ ‘‘ This law against the associations was so judged and so spoken of, even by the least energetic of the Deputies of the Opposition, as well as by public writers of all colours, in the workshops, and the barracks. " The army is in a state of suffering at being obliged thus to sustain the projects of Kings, which that army longs to fight against. The army, indeed, has also its mass of proletaires; a large number of old officers and young soldiers, whose rights are sa crificed to Court favours, to the despotism of etats majors,' and they have not less cause than the rest of French citizens to complain of the arbitrary con duct of the Government, and the system of privi leges. " In resisting all these attacks which aroused all generous sentiments and all indisputable rights, the associations have then a right to calculate on the assistance and sympathy of all. " Without the right of association there can be no public free education of the poor—no protection against the avidity of those who live on the miseries of others—no public instruction, to teach the people their rights and their strength—no guarantees for the press—for electoral rights—or for individual liberty. In fine, no remedy against the enormous and iniquitous burdens of large and exorbitant taxes. " If the members of the associations should sub mit to this law, the counter-revolution, after having struck those who shall be the first to oppose them, would immediately afterwards attack those who are the most inoffensive. " Let, then, those who are indifferent reflect ! The associations are nothing more than an avant garde.' All security for the future depends on the energy of the moment. " Let, then, the associations re-assemble—com municate with each other, and multiply in every direction, instead of dissolving themselves. Let all existing societies proclaim resistance to this project of oppression. Let all these set the example." This is the address ! It is bold and decided. The Tribune of to-day contains a long and violent article on the subject. It likewise contains the following protest from the Dijon and Seurre Asso ' ciations PROTEST OF THE DIJON ASSOCIATION AGAINST THE ANTI-ASSOCIATION BILL. " The Dijon Association against the tax on salt and liquors— " Considering that the right of association is a natural and imprescriptible right—that this right is the basis and bond of every society at all times, and in all places ; " Considering that no Government whatsoever has the privilege of arresting in its march the pro gress of humanity ; " Considering that the tax on salt and liquors is in itself unjust, vexatious, demoralising, and fatal to trade and industry—that this tax is under the universal reprobation of the people ; " Considering that the present Government has positively announced its intention of maintaining this tax, and even of increasing its amount ; . Considering that the country must do its ut most to attain its suppression, and that it is the duty of every citizen to concur in this work of ci vilization— " Decrees unanimously, Art. 1. The Society against the tax on salt and liquors protests with all its might against any law that may tend to compress or restrict the free exer cise of the right of association. " Art. 2. This Society will preserve its present or ganization, and will continue to meet as hitherto, where and when they may think fit. " Art. 3. It will consider as an attack made against the Society entire the pursuits directed against one or more of its members, and will resist by all the means in its power." [Here follow the signatures.] PROTEST FROM THE SOCIETY OF THE RIGHTS OF MAN AND OF CITIZEN AT SEURRE. " The undersigned members of the Society of the Rights of Man and of Citizen existing at Seurre— " Having seen the project of law against associa tions ; " Considering that the right of association is a natural right. " Considering that the least infraction made on that right is a violation of the principle of the sove reignty of the people— " Come forward to protest, with all the energy of their soul, against the Anti-Association Bill ; " Declare that it is their intention to continue to meet as they have hitherto done, and that if neces sary they will repel, by all possible means, the attack that may be directed against them. " Done at Seurre, March 23, 1834." [Here follow the signatures.] PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT oNlt O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red shut Ihdia Stock 3 per Cent. Cons 91 1:0% Ditto Bonds 28 30 pm. 3" per Cent. shut South Sea Stock 102% Ditto Red shut Old Annuities New 314 per Cent 98%54 IA New Ditto -- 3 per Cent. Ann. 1726 .... 3 per Cent. Ann. 1'751 — 4• per Cent. 1826 shut Ex. Bills, £l,OOO 53 54 pm' Bank Long Ann. to expire Ditto 'OO 52 54 pm. Jan. 5, 1860 shut Ditto Small Oct.lo, 1859 shut Ditto Commercial pm. Jan. 5, IMO l7 3-16 Ditto Advertised ... ...... pm. Jan, 5, 1880 — Bank for Account 2lB Aprils, 1880 - India for Account ... ..... 259 , 4, Jan. 5, 1870 - Cons. for Account ... 91% 90% PRICES OP FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds ....... lO2 Peruvian Bonds .0% Belgian Bonds 99% Ditto Account oi si Ditto Account 91% Portuguese Bonds 0 5 14 Brazilian Bonds 71% , Ditto Account 0 51 4 Ditto Account ~ 71% I Ditto New Bonds 65 4% B:tenos Ayres Bonds 254 Ditto Acconnt 65 4% Ditto Account 2O Prussian Bonds 10314 3 Chilian Bonds ........ 2.5% Ditto Bonds, lth.) Ditto Account 26 t Russian Bonds, 1822 103% Columbian Bonds Ditto Account 23 Ditto 111 103% Ditto Bonds, I 1824 24% 5 Spanish Bonds, 1 821 ...... 20 % 1 4 Ditto Account 0 44 Ditto Acc. 30% 4 Danish Bon s '3% I Ditto Bonds, 18:43 26% '7 Ditto Acccunt 73% I Ditto Account 27 Greek Bonds :French Bentes, sp. c. —f —c. Ditto Bonds, 18 , 5 .9% - Exchange —f —r. Ditto Account — I ---z per cent ••.... —f --z. Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent 31% i-- • Exchange ..- f -C. Ditto Account Dutch, 21 p. c.. 49% 51) 49% air o, 6 per cent 39 ' Ditto Account 50 49% Ditto Account '39 4 Ditto, sp. c. 05 4% lb Neapolitan • • Ditto Account 94% 5 PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. , Paid. per Share. Alien Mining Company £9 11% Anglo Mex. Min. to. (iss. at 5/. pm ).£lOO 716 '4 Bolanos Mining Company £l5O 15 i..... Brazilian Mining Company £s Brazilian Snip. Min. Co. (iss. at 5/. pm.) £2r' 'Ditto Macaubas Cocaes 2O Ditto St. John Del Rey Cata Branca Mining Company :l% uritish Iron Mininv Comoany £so Columbian Mining Co. (iss. at 5/. pm.) 525¢ English Mining Company .. ........ (eneral Mining Association l2 Hibernian Mining Co. £lo Mexican Mining Co. £4B Real del Monte Mining C 0.... (unreg.) - I rated Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 2/. pm.) 40 Ditto New So ip 5 Alliance Fire Insurance Comp lO Protector Insurance Comp. Australian Co Canada Company lB General Steam Navigation Co l3 National Provincial Bank of England 15 Rio Doce Provincial Bank of Ireland . 25 5914 1814 5% 31 10 , 4 25 35 2% 3 !N _334 7}Pi 10 XI 7 6 49M 15% 16!4% 2W, 42% PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, MARCH 31. Bank stock — St. t'atrick I n.ur.(porShare Consols, 3 per cent Gw. Stock, 3g per cent. 97 National Ditto.. .......... .... 2514 D.tto, New 97 Patriotic Ditto __7: per tent. - !Hibernian Bank 23% Wov. Deb. AS{ per cent.... —;Provincial Ditto — Royal Canal 8 ock ... . , .... 41% . Royal Irish Mine Grand Canal Stock ...... ... Imperial Mine — City Deb. 4 par cent — Mining Co. of Ireland Ballast Office Deb. 4n. c. Commercial Buildings — HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO MORROW. Morning .. 55 minutes after 10 ► Evening...M minutes after 11 NORTH AMERICA. BANK of the UNITED STATES, March 5. At a meeting of the Board of Directors, held this day, Mr. Eyre, from the committee on the offices, pre sented the following report, which was read " The committee on the offices having now ascer tained, by an experience of several months, the pro gress in the reduction in the business of the Bank, ordered by the Board on the Bth of October last, avail themselves of the monthly returns from the Bank and all its offices, made up for the month of March, to present a statement of those reductions. " The design of the Board in directing them was to protect the institution, and to provide the means of paying the deposits of the Government so as to press with as little injury as possible on the community. How far that purpose has been accomplished will be seen from the following statement of the amount of loans, deposits, specie, and circulation of the Ba nk, from the Ist of ! October, 1833, to the Ist of March, 1834." ( Here follows a tabular statement, in figures, which is not material for the general reader, as it is summed up below. ) " The general results of the operations of the Bank during the last five months have been— " 1. That the reduction of the loans has not been by upwards of four millions of dollars as great as the reduction of deposits ; and " 2. That the withdrawal of nearly eight millions of dollars, of those funds on which the Bank has based its accommodations to the community, has not yet been followed by a reduction of accommodations equal to one-half of the amount of funds thus with drawn. "3. That from the Ist of January to the Ist of March the increase in the line of domestic bills amounted to nearly two millions and a half of dollars. " 4. That during the same period there has been an actual increase in the total loans of the Bank of 1,256,368 d. 16c. " The committee cannot regret the smallness of this reduction during the last five months, nor even the ac tual increase of its loans since the Ist of January, be cause both have arisen from the strong desire of the Bank to give every relief to the community consistent with its own safety. But they cannot forbear to ex press their deliberate conviction that these reductions are much less than are required for its security during the present unsettled state of the currency ; and that it has now become the duty of the Bank, gently, but steadily, to diminish the amount of the claims upon it by continuing to lessen its business." " Whereupon, on the motion of Mr. Newkirk, the following resolution was unanimously adopted : " Resolved, That as much misapprehension appears to exist throughout the country in regard to the reduc tion of the loans of the Bank since the removal of the public deposits, the foregoing report be published for general information." " Extract from the minutes. " S. JA UD AN, Cashier." SINGAPORE, NOV. 16.—The annual state ments of the trade of Singapore for the official year ending the Ist of May, 1833, having been completed, we have obtained permission to publish them. The total value of imports amounted, according to the statement published, to the important sum of 9,101,179 dollars, including the trade with Malacca and Penang, while the Exports amounted to 7,593,190 dollars in like manner. Exclusive of the trade with these two places, the increase in the imports by square-rigged vessels alone appears to have reached the sum of 262,794 dollars, and that by native vessels to 389,406, making a total increase of 652,200 dollars in the im ports, after deducting the decrease. In the exports by square-rigged vessels there was a decrease of 36,876 dollars, but an increase in those by native craft to the amount of 318,062 dollars. This day was puhlishe 4 , in 3 vols. post Syn., R ECOLLECTIONS OF A NAVAL LIFE. By CAPTAIN JAMES SCOTT, R.N. Richard Bentley, 8, New Burlington street, Publisher in Ordinary to his Majesty. Agents for Scotland, Messrs. Bell and Bradfute, Edin burgh ; for Ireland, Mr. John Cumming, Dublin. To be had of .111 recpectable Booksellers in the United Kingdom. f:c - 41 /3 t )* j „ , *4114. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 3, 1834. The French Papers of Tuesday state, that the report that the hand of the Princess MARY, daughter of Louis PHILIP, had been de manded in marriage by Prince LEOPOLD of Naples, has proved to be correct. The nuptials are to take place next June. By intelligence from Spain, which had reached Paris up to the 26th ult., Madrid was in a state of tranquillity. The Earl of DURHAM and the entire corps fliplomatique had been invited by Count Pozzo DI BORGO to a grand entertainment given by him at his hotel yesterday. The Spanish Go vernment were reported to have decided on send ing into Portugal the succours requested by Don PEDRO, and that the Austrian, Russian, and Prussian Ambassadors at Madrid had en tered a protest against this resolution. Louis PHILIP and his Ministers were still active in their prosecutions of the press, the editor of the Tribune newspaper having been condemned to a fine of twenty-four thousand francs, and five years' imprisonment, for a seditious libel. The proposed reductions in the French army were said to have created much dissatisfaction at Paris. By all - accounts, France seems now to be recovering from the astonishment, not to say panic, occasioned by the law against associa tions. Protests against this most tyrannic law are getting up in all quarters. Even the re motest provinces are catching the infection of the general discontent at Paris. Unless, therefore, Louis PHILIP be prepared to follow up his schemes for muzzling freedom through out the kingdom by some extraordinary show of energy, his bill will be but so much waste paper. It would not surprise us to learn that Lord DURHANI's mission had an immediate reference to the associations' law ; for never did the someho K ne in of st, intelligent,FßANc FRANC E stand andi more ntrepi in n d eed of counsellor to advise with him in his present desperate emergency. If he imagines that his association law will procure him the esteem and support of the three despotic Powers, he will find that he has been sailing on a wrong tack throughout. He has given them far too much trouble, put them to far too many serious expenses, to be ever forgiven by the Legitimatists, or acknowledged by them as one of their set. Russia, indeed, may put a plausible face on the matter, and enter into a sort of hollow truce with him for a time ; but it will be only for a time, while her - plans with respect to Turkey are maturing. We look upon Louis PHILIP as being just now in precisely the same desperate condition that CHARLES the TENTH was previous to the pro mulgation of the ordinances. It is " neck or nothing" with the throne of the barricades and the juste milieu Ministry ; just as it was with the throne of the restoration and the Polignac Government. CHARLES attempted to save himself by a coup d'etat, and Louis is having recourse to the same remedy. FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIS, APRIL 1. Five per Cents., 104 f. 2l'c. 25c. Three per Cents., 7Sf. 10c. 15c. National Loan , 104 f sc. Bank Actions, 2,785 f. 1,795 f. Rente de Naples, 041. 40c. Roman Five per Cents., 94%. Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 26%. Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 40%. Royal Spanish Loan, 81 Rente Perpet. d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 65%. Haytian Loan, 270 f. EXCIIANGE ON LONDON. One month, paper, —E —c. ; money, 25f. 25c. Three months, paper, —f. —c. ; money, 25f. 15c. —Comrs Aulleentique. Brussels papers of the 2d instant have been received. The marching and counter-marching of troops seems to take up a large portion of their space, but the description of which pos sesses so little interest for our readers, especially as it leads no positive result. The following may serve as a specimen :---- BRUSSELS, APRIL I.—An English Cabinet 'Messen ger passed through Brussels yesterday evening, on his way from Vienna to London, with despatches. M. Willox (a Belgian Cabinet Messenger) set out yegter day, with despatches, for Germany. The son of Earl Grey arrived on the 29th at Ostend by the packet from Dover. General Magran has arrived in Ghent from Paris. The battalions of the 11th Regiment are leaving the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg for Namur. The corps of partisans of 800 men has arrived from Luxemburg at Namur, where it will remain in garrison for the present. The 2d and 3d battalions of the Ist Regiment arrived yesterday at Namur, and set out to-morrow for Liege, and are to remain there in garrison. The 2d battalion of the 4th Regiment, now at Liege, will leave it on the 2d April. Three battalions of the 2d Regiment, now at Ghent, have received orders to depart ; only one battalion of the Regiment will remain in that city. A letter from Luxemburg, relating the departure of the troops from that province, says," The Russian brigade of Luxemburg is definitively broken up, after having come to our province to prove only more clearly the weakness of a Ministry which has declared that it can do nothing of itself. We chiefly pity the poor soldiers fatigued by these marches and countermarches, who have performed an harassing duty in looking, at a distance, on the limits insolently fixed by the Prus sian-General. _ _ _ ( From the Messager de Gand.) GHENT APRIL 1.-" Nobody is deceived by the pretended reasons assigned to the mission of Count Reede and the German envoys to the Duke of Nassau. It is now known that they are gone to receive from the Duke his authentic declaration, or rather protest, against any alienation of the Grand Duchy; a docu ment which is indispensably necessary to the Congress at Vienna, or to the Diet of the Confederation, that either of those assemblies may found on this formal act the decision which will re-annex the Grand Duchy to the German Confederation." BELGIAN FUNDS.—BRUSSELS, MARCH 31. Actual Debt, 2 per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent 97f Loan of the City, 1832, 4 per Cent 941 —Brussels Papers, April 2. The Suabian Mercury contains the follow ing particulars of what the Congress at Vienna have been deliberating upon. The 4th section appears to us as destructive of the rights of property as well as legislative freedom ; but what can we expect from the meridian of. Vienna ? It will be a day of glorious retribution that shall wrest from these continental despots the rights they arrogate to themselves,—and that day may not be so distant as Prince METTER NICH and the Autocrat of Russia would believe. The very first continental war—arise from what it may—or be undertaken for whatever purpose, is sure to set up the standard of political eman cipation throughout Germany, Italy, aye and along the plains of Poland, till Russia tremble to her very centre. Then may the Turk look round and break his fetters on the banks of the Bosphorus : . MANHIEM.-We have received from Vienna some gleams of light upon the deliberations of the Congress that we gladly communicate to the friends of our con stitution; Ist, the constitutions of the German States will remain in their actual condition ; their vices may be amended by justice. 2d. No reduc tion of the states in the provincial states is to be ap prehended. 3d. The princes and the governments re tain their sovereignty and independence required for themselves and their boundary, and they will not be able to proceed by way of regulations, so as to oppose themselves as confederates, and bring into collision the confederation and the organic constitution of the coun try. 4th. The States will no longer have the rights they have recently arrogated, and that are not com promised in the charters ; rights, for example, which consist in rejecting the ordinances and provisional laws in refusing the taxes, in diminishing, or entirely suppressing the Civil List, the provisions to be made for the expenses of the State, &c., and at the same time it must not be believed that they are not to exa mine the budget.—Manheim Gazette. LOWER DANUBE, MARCII 13.—The evacuation of the principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia by the Russian troops has, it is true, recently experienced delay ; but we learn, from a source that may be relied upon, that the causes of this delay are in nowise con nected with politics. It is the scarcity of corn and forage in the provinces of the interior and the south of Russia that is the sole cause of this delay. It is ex pected that the evacuation will be effected before June.—Suabian Mercury. We have news from Rome which will be read with wonder, if not consolation, by our worthies at home, who are in tribulation at the forthcoming scrutiny into the Pension List. Lo I and behold, even the POPE has become a reformer, and has set his face against unmerited pensions. Can Mr. DANIEL WHITTLE HARVEY WiSh for higher authority to countenance him in his meritorious labours ? After this, we think there is hope for even,NICHOLAS ROME, MARCH 18.-2-The Pope has given orders for a general revisal of all the branches of the public revenue and expenditure ever since the year 1817. It is supposed that the validity of various pensions, &c., granted during this period will be inquired into, and many of such claims will be struck out as illegal, which would be a great relief to our dilapidated finances. His Holiness has received the visit of the Queen of Naples, and has bestowed on Cardinal Bunette the highest honour that a Cardinal can receive. The new special court of justice for political affairs has pro nounced its first sentence. Among the persons con demned is a lawyer, who had written against religion. He is sentenced to the galleys for three years, and to twenty years' inquisitorial imprisonment. Recourse to the mercy of the Pope is still open to him. Our spring is delightful. VIENNA, MARCH 21.—Baron Von Newman has left this city on an extraordinary mission to the Duke of Nassau.—Allgemeine Zeitung, March 28. The Dissenters 'are a persevering, as well as intelligent and zealous, body of men, and the clergy will do well to promote the speedy re dress of their grievances. The longer this is delayed, the more extensive will be their de mands. This is evident from what has oc curred with ir r xed e n sp jmt. OeocHnt Hadt Nh t s o R a t gut h hos e Eie M tL verywLaroriage osu same md the have Bill i Ipe l l a been po teer been a boon. Th en , a ll t h e Di ssenters p t wi l n o i et e s lr e eo G d ndi nu o b v ec y de e d r L n as m s o asked was relief from conscientious scruples, and permission to have the religious ceremony bytheiribecause it ministers requires them to ;notv now, they object pedonnd to the bill, i go to the clergy for certificates of the proclama tion of bans or licenses, and to pay fees to ecclesiastical officers. But why did they not avail themselves of a suggestion to prepare a bill for themselves ? Why do they not now suggest such alterations in the proposed bill as will render it acceptable to the community at large ? Are they eager to break up their old connections ? From the time of the Second CHARLES to the re peal of the Test Acts, the Dissenters have been connected with the RUSSELLS, the GREYS, and the SPENCERS. Mr. Fox took up their cause when they were abandoned by Mr. PITT (whom they assisted in breaking up the Coali tion Ministry), and when even Mr. WILBER FORCE spoke and voted against them. When Lord Si Dm ouTH craftily attempted their over throw, they found eager and eloquent defenders in Lords ERSKINE, HOLLAND, and GREY. repeal f A a r nd fro i IN i n n ' later h ebi iti they being ymuednsei, despaired united ia i who riend c oasfrpr success,iier d it the an Test Act the 1 Their resolutions, passed at a meeting of Protestant Societ r the Protection of Reli • the bes t Reli gious Liberty, s after, will furnish answer : " Resolved—That this meetin with peculiar sa: Russe:l tisfaction, owe their obligations tog,Lord John l and the Right Hon. Lord Holland, who introduced the i v ely measure to the Houses of Parliament they r espect . I, ct adorn ; who have so gloriously achieved the i ei r e p a which, when they presided at this society, they Ple7, n themselves to attempt, and whereby they have .---.. dered themselves anew the benefactors, not of P y i ; anedfrowretr; testant dissenters alone, but of their c ountry and a nd . ~. 4 " t world. That their information, e nergy, s quence, m us t ex t en d th e i r fame, b ut that the Pure e t , eulogies ar e d ue f or th e i r accessibility, for the temP and judgment they exhibited, and for the hearts' love to freedom by which they were ' inspired. That w i them rea this meeting offer their warmest thank and breathe out their hope that they will long r emain living examples of the goodness and glory of their immortal relatives---of Russell and of Fox." It is impossible that the persons who proposed and i. carried by acclamation such a resolution as 1 rrilvselhgltsiihc,s can the adthti ever forget their own recorded senti ments of the Marriage us commended cannot want a motive to ; and, surely, the noblemen whom they them all the service in their power. Where, then, registration n di c u s l s s t u y e i , finally, to the redress of 13 all the grievances °f etr n edi ar dissenters t e eco s o p mßa e pi c iil t lla , limnfisr:srcto,ovlntetodcliaxytil,bis e eti, losl c i I la; o , e r ac r! from the want of due consideration on all sides,and from apprehension of difficulties whic h u° not really exist, or which it would be eas` overcome. Let the dissenters call to mind their former declarations ; let them act as though they knew their claims to be so manifestly just that any good man must be ready to ai d them as A 11 soon as he understands their situati on, an d 3 the rest will be easy. And to whom does the .work of restoring good feeling betwee n those who ought always to be friends so properly belong as in the hearts of their followers ; ( me to those who either are, or ought to be, To them it and all, the ministers of peace ? belongs to arouse generous and noble emotions violence of party feeling ; and to promote liar' mony amongst those who have proved them" the selves the friends of their country. A s head and the hand are equally necessary t°, man, so is it needful to the accomplishment of tat any great work of reform or improvement, tii t the governors and the governed should act unitedly, and display due con fi dence in eae I other. The old friends of the Dissenters may not be quite so eager as it is desired they they should be, but it by no means follows that of are not Working as sincerely, and in to allay fact - fact as' effectually, for their benefit, as when e. they had less of power than they have at pr . , sent, but the same disposition to do all that '' (fled practicable for those with whom they strug, in less prosperous times. _....—.....p.---- - e A Bill was brought into Parliament, some 0 • - of days before the recess, to increase the livoiN, in order to the Rector of Christchurch, Surrey, do away with the angry contentions which a re . renewed annually in that parish ou v oting a un . - nister's rate. It appears that this parish orig.- !' rally formed part of St. Saviour's, from whic rty of prope it was separated in consequence h a d -0, being bequeathed for the payment 0 point as' hitherto performed his duty with grea t , resident clergyman. The Rector, who siduity, and was beloved in the parish, ha v t ceased to reside in it, cannot derive any be n : 1 11 1 ; from the bequest, and now applies to Parlilli could for relief. We cannot see how Parliament. I interfere in such a case at any lgac least of all at the present moment, whe n t eo t is a determination on the part of Governm , „ Te ll not only to relieve the dissenters from c °- it rates, but also to do away with pluraliti es ' ea , is certainly monstrous to introduce a bi ll t° I I i a is " courage non-residence, and compel the P - i far, 1 ioners to pay a clergyman already provid e ' abt _ perioto here if he only performs his duty. Such a bill oa never to pass the Commons. Sc illotch th The Earl of ERROL, one of the oldest ,ost Peers, and a stanch Reformer, ill e Green difficult times, is to be invested wi th the Gre Riband, vacant by the death of Lord G.A .11- LOWAY. We understand that the pr o ° -----..--r---"" ; a l and pri ha- su b " vate friends of the late Dr. scribed 1,400 guineas towards erecting a m onumen t tt . . 1 his memory in St. Paul's. Such was the compte,iiir; among artists for the honour, that not less than from five models were actually sent in to the committ successful twenty-five artists. Mr. Behnes was the slic e candidate. vig '0' 11) DESTRUCTION OF THE CLIFFS " - i l :g s l9c - KEMPTOWN.-The rapid destruction of the (Fl it tween Kemptown and Rottinddean cannot but 5- be en every one. The road to the latter place bl io the three times encroached upon and destroyed scl i t. e is s° last 20 or 30 years • and although the present lol ach of far . removed as to be apparently beyond the reach r olia injury, least at for many years, yet since the last iar c, was made . a very great loss of the cliffs has ta11c4, 5 de - , and their destruction is in active progress. inroads -1. °;` afbesins;tonn vastation is not occasioned, however, by the, in , s ,jog ' 1 ; the sea, except in a trifling degree : the IT whl c 'i the real cause. The ancient bed of shing.era ,s 0 , rests upon the chalk, and which supports th e e l n iii 3° loose materials of which the upper part of thfoularrl composed, consists of loose pebbles and lare.:e,pose near the base of the cliffs, and is conse imbedded in a very fine sand. This be° I v eil s c c i goo ey w ipe cessible ; and as large flints are more r eadilY ° e , 0 1 .; from it than from the modern beach, the tl ! c Ong i f ployed to collect these materials are daily PI washedtote oitt, and undermining the cliffs, which from the w t support fall down in enormous m asses, and a re a rei t c , away by the sea. It is a matter of surprise antoo..h that the lords of the manor allow this ( 10 0 . 4 obi ( ' t take place ; for admitting that the surface of oo g re :e. l amounted to several hundred has been, and is still being destroyed, to y ears hath.o.l value (although it must within the last : 2 ." a telY ct 1 cliffs must approach the present road and t are situ' on which the gas-works and other buildings joae d , ated. This destruction, we repeat, is n ot °c i d the Ole the inroads of- the sea ; it is solely produced fo Y i. a fe ed; ntoval of the ancient shingle bed ; and. thus , o btaLl i e j cart loads of flints, which could easlY b e ,„ run rO, elsewhere, the cliffs to the extent of nlaT t ' ut bie P' o ,l yards have been destroyed, acres), ye t nitr e g . ra ti . tl iv and m uch that va the %, party endangered. It appears probable ._ of 4 parade, which have occasioned the croachments of the sea along the shores at the o f 0, neeeSS! L Y ca rri b eti a similar reckless removal of the enormously expensive works that are n ow he l , ll g ra tecl lie on for its protection, have been greatly ac e!e o o f t'' o f founda tio t,lo 4 , , ,e cliff. Within the last fortnight se veral car, ieo t o'l shingle have been taken away from the ancient falli; beyond Kemptown ; and this has occasioned Galet many hundred tons of the cliffs !--,Brighte'i I I I I