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WEDNESDAY, Jamvast 4,112 i.
pie Paris Papery of Soiterthiy last which hat
twitted at our office ditappoint tts so far that they
do Olt aemn.ince the dismissal or the Spaniels Ids-
but they give sufficient assurance in a vote
of the Cortes that s Change in this particular must
ire very shortly effected. After a debate protracted
for three days, the Cortes Rushy resolved. by a
large mejority, that the present Ministers have not
the moral force necessary for properly conducting
the government of the nation, and for causing the
dignity and prerogatives of the throne to be re-
spected ; and that • message to this effect should
be convejed to the Kula, praying his Majesty to
adopt such measures as the situation of the king-
dom requires. This• vote is irresistible, unless
indeed the Court should resolve to try the chance
of propitistii.g the favour of a new Congress.—
The truth of the assertion advanced in this reso-
lution respecting the defect of moral power in
the existing Cabinet cannot be doubted ; it re-
quires no further proof titan what is offered by the
general condition of the monarchy. When •
people are discontented, end acknowledge no union
but one of complaint; when the finances are eat-
!wrestled. and the credit of the Government de-
'grayed; when the army is mutinous, and the
towns wear the shew of organised opposition to the
executive authority, the depositaries of power must
be either lamentably weak or wicked. It matters
little to Spain which branch of the alternative the
present (or late) Ministers may adopt, but the con-
dition of the country pronounces judgment upon
their inability.
The Preis Papers notice the discovery of a plot
against the Government of France, which was
formed at the military school of Stu mar. The
object of the conspirators was to seize upon the
Castle of Saumur, but beyond this point there
is no intimation of the nature of their project..
It dues not seem to have been very formidable,
for it was defeated by the seizure of eight of the
under-masters of the school. end we are told that
the grateful task of arresting them was intrusted to
the pupils of the institution. This occurrence is said
to have produced an unfavourable impression open
the state of the French funds. It is certain that.
from whatever cause proceeding, a panic prevailed
to a considerable extent in the money market of
Paris on Friday and Saturday last, for on the for-
mer day the five per cents. fell from 87 and 88 f. to
85 f 93c. and a private letter which left Poi. on
Saturday evening, says, that at one time they were
so low as 114 f. but had again risen to 851.
There is no notice taken in these Papers of
the state of the KING'S health. They are equally
silent upon the subject of the important state-
ments which lately appeared in the Paris and
Vienna Journals respecting the revolution in
Constantinople. There are accounts from the
Turkish capital of so late • date as the 47th of
November, which was one of the days assigned to
the insurrection of the Janissaries. The news of that
day was, that war was formally declared by the Porte
against Persia, and that the Janissaries were express.
jug their dissatisfaction at the general state cf
public affairs in their old manner of raising con.
flagrutions in the capital. This temper in the
Janissaries has always been found ominous of future
acts of violence; bnt the concurrence of the Sul-
tan hitherto in the views of the military end the
populace, ought to protect him from the sabres of
these assassins. We should be less surprised at a
further massacre of Christians, than at the murder
of the obsequious Sovereign of the Turks.

Since writing the above we recei►ed the Paris
Papers of Thursday and Friday, utvi also of Sun-
day last, from which we have made the following
extracts. The paragraphs relating to the affairs of
Turkey confirm the observations we have already
made upon that subject.
In the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies on
Saturday, the Committee of Petitions in their Re-
port noticed a Petiiion from the Sieur CILIIITIN,
un advocate, complaining of the conduct of
M. de SEIM, late Keeper of the Seals, in having
struck him off the list of advocate,. The offence
of this Gentleman appears to have consisted in pub-
bulling a severe satire against the President of the
Tribunal at Gray, where he practised us an advocate.
The Committee conceived that M. de SEIM aVed

in conformity with strict justice sod the poser that
belonged to his office, and proposed that the Chaos.
ber should pass to the Order of the Day. This
was violently opposed. M. r'e Situ justified his
conduct in person. The Chamber at length came
to the vote, when there appeared for the motion
142, against it 135—majority 7. The various par-
ties that compose the Chamber were severally di.
vided upon this question.
The Five per Cents. we find closed on Saturd.l
at 83 f. 50 c.; Bank Stock 1,590 f.
PARIS, DECEMBER 88.
Yesterday, after mass, the King transacted busi-
ness with the Marquis of Lituriston. Minister of the
Interior.
Letters from Niples, of December 8, state that
the earthquake on the night of the 41st of Novem-
ber, of which there was only a slight shock felt in
the capital, has made great W I ages in the pro. .