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MOUSE OF COMMONS.

Sir Ease KIIATVIIIMILL presented the Rep art of the
Committee up° the Pstithes es to Margate rice, which was
ordered to he pet sled.
Colonel Sirs aLai pftaratad s Petition from certain inha-
bitants of Oldham, pntrog ids the Restoratiom of Peace.—
Laid 4m the Table.
Ou the motion of Mr. Wilt ate•n, sevel.al Returns rela-
tive to the Array were mimed.
The Route west into a Committee oo the Irish Revenue
Acta, end the Report we. hilinght ur.
Mr. CANNING presented a Palter. intitnied " informa-
tion resenting tite Measures adopted for enforcing the
French Berme of the STISI Gi horemieer, 1006."—Crileicd
to lie ups the Table.
The 10,50G,Ge01. Exchequer Bill Bill was repurtel, and
ordered to be read a third time to.mon ow.
The Petty Cr-toms Bill was mad • third time, and pained.

PERUVIAN BARK.
Mr. WHITBREAD wished to know from the Right
Hon. Geistleman opposite, when he meant to bring
in the Bill for prohibiting the exportation of Peru-
vian Bark, for which a Resolution was passed last
'light, in his absence, which he thought one of the
must detestable Resolutions that ever had passed
the Hansa ?
The CHANCr.t.LOR of the Excutguta answered,
that he intended to bring in the Bill to-morrow.
GREAT. G NISBY ELECTION COMMITTEE,
u %suntan TIM DAY.
Tbe Hoe. R. Curi,m, Juba Robinson, Esq.
Willi,tan Cavendish, Esq. Thos. Tyrobltt Drake, Esq.
Joseph errpps, Esq. Sir Janes 1441,
C. T. Brenton, Esq. R. P. Blachioni, Esq.
George Gipps, Esq. Peter Pettey, Esq.
Lord Wiliam &munch,
DONT!. CM

limey R'iAoaih►y, Red
The other ordm were dun
jemmied suet: o'clock.

John Ireland Blackburn.
postponed, and the Holm ad-

INTELLIGENCR.

FROM THE FRENCH PAPERS..

?AKIN rte. 10.
The privateer the Rodent, Capt. floret, has CAT..
pied into Dieppe a three-wasted vessel, called the
iierettry, of Nay. York, of ,206 tons burden, Capt.
Two.. Watson, on its voyi.ge from Teneriffe to
Haniburgh, laden with no tons of Canary soda,
awl 00 d'ain of Spani.h wine. We do ndt know
whether she will be declared good and lawitsl prize,
being an American ; but the formalities required
by the late. Decrees of His imperial Majestly, will
• be enforced, in older to ascertain whether this
neutral has not been visaed by the English, or

taken shelter in one of tlitir ports.
JAL 27.

The States of the Duchy of Styria have seat a
Deputation to congratulate Their Imperial Majes-
tiei un their union.

It was by mistake it was said that M. Argi-
! "ippon, late Chars* d'Affaires from the Ottoman
Porte to Berlin, was to succeed M. de 'ribald° here;
vrlio, as we halr said, bas lately bad his audience
of leave of the Emperor. M. Argiropoli expects,

every hour, an order from Constantinople to leave
Vienna, and return to Pera.
The Greek merchants here expect from Salo-
nicisi a considerable transport of cotton, of more
than 10,000 bales ; it is to come by land.
UTRECUT, /2114
On Monday and Tuesday last, the Bensoit,
Muuickhanaen, Ministtif rtnipotentiery *owl&
Majesty the King of Westphalia, and the Bum
De Fitz. Minister from His Majesty the Emperor.
of Austria, presented their letters of credence to
His Majesty.
sitattw, raw. U.
The plan for the new organization of the Prussian
army is entirely finished.
4.,
There will be a general conscription entirely new.
- .4
6. The arury will be entirely composed of natives;
is consequence, all foreigners, whether officer...,
subalterns, or soldiers, will be dismissed.
„. The number of generals will be diminished ; the

regiments will only ha►e colonels.
There will be only two captains of the staff of

each regiment; the quarter-masters and almoners
1,
will be suppressed ; there will be almoners only in
time of war. _ _

The troops of the regiments doing duty will
change their garrison every year.
COPENUAGEI, JAN. 26.
The Prince Royal is expected hem on his re-
tnrn from Kiel, within it fortnight. . Tise Minister
of State, Count Demstorfi, is still here ; and on
account of the irapoetnee of the events which nix}
trg esock.ted to take ;race, he will continue to re-

tide at Copenhagen with the Prince Royal, as also'
with the French Minister, M. Didelot.
The Chevalier Meyners, Minister from Hollant ;
M. de Cesar, Minister from Prussia; the Baron
de Bender, Minister from Austria; and all the
rest of the Diplomatic Corps, are still at Kiel ; as
is also Joachim Bcrnstorff, Director of Foreign
I Affairs, and brother to the 3linister or State.

• I.TON JAN. `!4.

The Prince Royal having ordered that a Coui-
niittee shall be appciutcd, in this city, for the esta-
blishment of a corps of armed citizens, this Com-
mittee has presented to his Royal Highness a plan.
which the Prince has approved, according to which
this corps will consist of eight companies of one
hundred men each, without reckoning the officers.
This corps will do military duty in case of need,
and in the absence of troops of the line, and to
watcls over the security and tranquillity of the city,
and maintenance of the police.
WARSAW, JAW. 20.

His Majesty the King of Saxony, wishing to
give to, the Poles, wbo have distinguished them-
selves by their bravery and patriotic devotion,
some public marks of his esteem and satisfaction,
has resolved, in a decree lately published, that
there shall be founded a military order of the
Duchy of Warsaw. The decorations of this order
will, in consequence of the regulations enacted
in this decree, be distributed among the mili-
tary in the following manner:
The Cross of Commandant to the Generals of
Division, and that of Knight to the Generals of
Brigade, Colonels and' Majors; there shall be
given to each division six officer's crosses. and three
gold crosses, to be distributed among the Staff
Officers of the Division and of the Brigades which
compose it. Each regiment shall have four
Knight's crosse3, four gold crosses, and six silver,
to bestow oa military merit and good conduct.
Each battalion shall in like manner have two
Knight's crosses, two gold and three silver crosses.
There shall be placed, at the disposal of the Mi-
nister at War, six Knight's crosses, and six gold
crosses, for the Officers who do not serve in any
corps, nor appertain to any staff.

fElatlf, JAIL. 15.
The Servian Senate, holding its sittiop at Bel-
grade, has adopted. in its sitting of the skl of this
month, the first article of the Proja of Constint-
tion proposed by the Counsellor of State, Rodoti-
nikin ; it relates to the sale of lauds and homes.
The three articles, containing the division of Serria
into districts. the establishment of custom-houses

on the frontiers 011 the side of Atirtria, and the
means of making industry and commerce flourish,
have been adjourned to the next sitting.
On the 4th and sth the Senate was occupied
solely in the-nomination of the members of the
tribunals in the towns, and the justices in the vil-
lages.
On the gth were sent to the authorities of the
country, the laws sod instructions according to
which the tribunals are to proceed in matters of
law and policy; they are printed in the Illyrian
language.