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TEXAS ASSOC TAT mx.-31ore than three years since a Company
of individuals associated themwclrs together, for the Purpose of at-
tempting to procure a grant of lands front the Government of
Mexico. in the province of Texas. Pursuant to this design agent*
were despa.ched from hence to the city of Mexico, carrying with
them a memorial to the existing Government, expresatve of their
•iews and wishes. The agent arrived there a short time previous
to the cornnwiun of Iturbule, as Emperor of Mexico. This, to-
gether with subsequent revolutiont in the Government of the
country, rentnied the pmgress of their mission, so that all re.
turned. bottle, without having accomplished any thing final, with
the exception of Certain Leftwich, of flusselv;lle, Kentucky, one
of the Delegates who was deputed from this place. With a
persevering zeal, equal to the most arduous undertaking, he re-
mained in time capital of Mexico, awaiting a favourable
opportunity to accomplish the object of his mission, and
rasing the 17104 C unceasing efforts towards its completion....
Ilia exertions hare at length been crowned with success.
lly letters received fmM Ciptin Leftwich, one dated at
Siltillo in April, and at New Orleans in June. on his return home-
ward, we are informedTthat he has obtained a grant of land in
Texas of between six and eight millions of acres, designed for the
settlement of 800 familia. We ■retnes possessed of the precise
boundaries of this grant; nor of the particular terms upon which it
is made; •but from precious information are induced to beltive
that the land granted lies along the bottlers of Louisiana, being
part of the same territory heretofore claimed by the Untied States,
and ceded away in exchange for Fh•ida.

We are glad to learn that the apprehension of s war be-'
tween the new Governments of Brazil and Buenos Ayres is,
without foundation. The latter have disclaimed all con-
nexion with the Insurgents before Monte Video, who are
described in the latest accounts from the Rio de la Plata as
being in a destitute and disorganised condition. The first
expedition of Brazilian troops arrived at Monte Video on
the lath of June. At that time the place was perfectly
quiet, and the inhabitants were under no alarm. The
report was, however, still current, that the Liberating
Army in Peru was marching to aisist the Insurgents
and it was even stated that BOIIVAR had arrived at
Potoqi, wkh the intention of directing the operations in
person. These reports were not generally credited.

CITY, Turnisnay Evzxnro.

Th, hest proof that we can give of the continuance of
the panic on the Stock Exchanges is, that the last harga:as
in Consols to-day for the Account were done at 8;, sellers.
In the early part of the morning a great deal of business
was done at 2474.8. They then went down to en 1, and at
the latter quotation they continued some time, ai:d a per-,
feet calm, as far as referred to business, prevailed in the
market, every one anxiously waiting to In sr the result of
the meeting of the Bank Directors. The fact, however, is,
that this much talked of meeting had rtfcrence to nothing
' beyond the routine business that regularly calls the Gover-
nors of the Dank together. A% very naturally, herefore, no
result of the C9LICI3VC of Directors was known Wore the

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Inarket was about to dote, Ibis supposed secrecy-was c0u.61
'trued into an unfltrow co
tible circumstance, and in nse-
quence, we believe, of this absurd apprehension of
imaginary eril,Consols for the Account left off at 87, sellers.

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The !honey prime were 873 861. The Reduced An-
nuittet ihnt to-day for the payment of the dividends. Ex-
chequer Bills were at 3 discount.
An attempt *as made to rally the Foreign Market en'''. ,
in the morning, hut it did not succeed ; and every security
' was in a moat depressed state. The brokers and jobbers,
like those in the Controls Market, were waiting to hear the
issue of the Directors conference, and as, of course, they
heard nothing, they fancied much, and Securities generally
became still heavier. The Old Spanish Bonds went down
to Al 4 I ; for the New there has been no price for several
days, and Greek Scrip was at 17} discount. Rut South
American Securities appear to bear up against this financial
storm worse than any others in this market. Colombian
Bonds were as low as 73, and Mexican Scrip at 11 discount.
Indeed, we ought to except the New Guatcmata Scrip, for
that has not been in any degree affected by the present
panic like the rest of those Securities. It was this morning
at 43i discount. Brazilian Scrip was at 11 discount, and
Danish Scrip at 8 discount.
.' When the English and Foreign Stock Markets are in
their present condition, the Share Market must retrograde
with them, and therefore we have Anglo-Mexican Shares
reported at 60 5 ; United Mexican Shares at 19 '2l ; those
of the Pasco Peruvian Company at 8 9 ; and the Potosi
Shares at 31.
The Sugar Market was very heavy to-day. Coffee, on
the contrary, was firm in price, and Rum was a good deal
inquired after. Those who want to purchase Sugars are
keeping aloof, under the expectation that the price will
give way, and that has caused the gloom in the market this
morning.

A Roman Jonrnal (the Notizie del Giorno) publishes a'
letter, dated from Alexandria on the llth. of June, in
which the following fact* are stated:—" The Pacba is
entirely occupied with the augmentation of his military
force. He is expending considerable sums on his expedi-
tions to the Mores. In a few days 6,000 men were to sail
from Egypt ; 30,000 are organizirg in the vicinity of
Cairo; and it appears to be the intention of the Viceroy
to Wee his army to 60,000 men. The French General
Boyer, who has a salary of 12,000 francs, is at the head of
these proceedings. Be has several other French officers
under his command, who endeavour to exclude the Italian
refugees from the Egyptian service. One of the latter, in
consequence of three intrigues, challenged Colonel Gaudin,
and killed him in the duel with two thrusts of his
sword. The Viceroy has denounced serious punishment
against All those disorderly practices, by which he is likely
to be deprived of his most valuable ofEcors. Egypt is
filled to excess with cotton and indigo. The Americans
readily supply the cultivators with the seeds of their hest
cottons."

Another Lisbon packet arrived yesterday. She brings
letters to the 20th August, but they contain nothing inte-
resting to the public.
Lisbon Gazettes were yesterday received to the 21st ult.
The King of Portugal has issued a long decree, prescribing
various measures relative to persons travelling in the king-
dom, and regulating the visits of the police-office on board
vessels arriving in, or .sailing from, any of the ports, for the
purpose of preventing vagabonds, malefactors, and other
suspicious persons, from introducing themselves into, or
escaping from, the kingdom. The authors of the sacrilege
committed at Oporto have not yet been discovered.
Extract of a letter, dated LisLon, Aug. 16.—" Little busi-
ness has been ddne this week, not owing to the weather,
which was never known more mild, but to the seeming
unsettled state of our government, over which seems to
hang a thick cloud, through which nobody can penetrate,
although every moment apprehensive of some awful
change, and which seems to have infected all classes of
people."
The inhabitants of Madrid are at present dreadfully
annoyed by the perennial and pestilential visit of clouds of
locusts, which appear in such myriads that they almost
darken the sun. They have been repeatedly exorcised by
the Clergy, but without effect.
Letters of a late tiata Irom *ate, confirm in some
measure the report of an action at Tripolizaa, in which
Ibrahim Pacha was defeated. He is stated to have en-
deavoured to march to Patras. The Greek fleet is reported
to be in pursuit of the Turkish squadron towards Mis-
solonghi. Two British vessels of war were off that port.
On the 11th ult. the Swiss Diet received a report
from the Committee of Commerce oo the new tariff of
duties for the Duchy of Baden. The tariff'was much dis-
approved, and indeed considered inadmissible as the basis
of a new Convention, and the presiding Canton was directed
to communicate this decision to the Baden Ministry.
The families in the Grisona who suffered from confisca-
tions in the Valteline, Bormio, end Chiavenna, have been
offered three millions of Milanese livres as an indemnity.
This sum they refuse, as their losses are said to amount to
12.000,000.

The Hamburgh papers of Saturday mention a sudden
change of weather, from cold and wet to extraordinary
heat, in the city.
A New York Paper of July 25th announces the follow-
ing death :—" Died suddenly, on Saturday afternoon last,
Mr. Charles Bonaparte, in the Stith year of his age."
It is stated in a letter from Boston (North America),
that during the month of July the heat in that city was so
great as to render it necessary fur the Mayor to limit the
hours of labour of the operative classes. The thermometer
stood at 90 at midnight.
The Canning, Baylis, has arrived from China. She
sailed from thence on the 26th March, and from St. He-
lena on the 10th July. She met with no English ships at
that station from B,:ngal, but she found there two French
Indiamen from that Presidency, the Courier de la Paix,
lhound to Havre, and the Bordelais, bound to Bordeaux.
The Canning brings no news.
STAFFORD CHURCH MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.-011
Wednesday morning the Lord Bishop of Lichfield and Co-
ventry presided at the annual meeting of this Soccety. The
attendance of the friends of the Institution was numerous
and highly respectable ; and the presence of Lout Harrow-
by, with his two sons, and Lord Bexley, added much to
the interest of the occasion. 'The Report, which was read
by the Rev. G. Norman, gave a pleasing view of the in-
creasing prosperity of the Association ; the slim of 1421. 9s.
had been remitted to the Parent Society in London since
the last meeting.
Between the 10th day of the present month and the loth
of October, at three o'clock in the morning, the rare and
interesting conjunction will he effected (near Regulus, the
first star of the Lion) of three of the most luminous
planets, Venus, Mars, and Jupiter, which will contribute
to the lisht and heat, and procure us beautiful autumnal
morning!.

BANI or Inv.,. xn.—lt is true, as stated in a Water-
ford Paper, that the Bank of Ireland Notes have been pro-
tested in Clonmel for non-payment—that is to say, for a
refusal of gold. A legal question will, of course, be raised
lon this transaction, and will be brought to a course of adju-
' dication early next term. The Bank contend that their
notes are only payable in Dublin. It is asserted on the
other side, that wherever the Bank has an office, Mere is
the Bank. Besides, the branches circulate the notes as
issuing from the district within its sphere, as IVaterford,
Limerick, Cork, &c. These, or other names of places, are
on the f:ont.of the notes. If the party protesting the notes
shall succeed, we imagine that the Branch Banks of the
Bank of Ireland must be given up.—Dublin Evening
Punt.

Sounc E or VOLCANIC FlRE.—Water seems to be a ne-
cereary agent in the production of volcmic fire, for only
extinct volcanoes are found far inland. The most active
are in the immediate vicinity of the sea, and some are ac-
tually submarine. The matter that feeds them does not
seem to be universally diffused, but rather collected in par-
ticulai spots. Hence they always exist in groups ; yet the
action of one of the volcanoes of the same group is found to
be completely independent of that of the others—Stromboli
bang asleep while iEtna is raging. The fire is probably
seated at some considerable distance under the surface ; but
the erupted matter does not appear to come from a very
great depth. The source of this firt remains unknown,
notwithstanding many plausible conjectures. Beds of coal
and pyrites do not account for it, wither slo the pure me.
tal4e basis of ratios and soda.

IttroL 2'ix Sp
memo, A I7G. 16.

A violent disturbance Is said to have taken place at Isogon°,
land which had obliged a regiment from Valladolid to proceed to-
wards that place. Although this event is very generally rumoured,
yet it is prudent not to announce it positivey as a fact.

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It is also said that there has been a lodge of Freemasons dis-
covered at Grenada, and that more than forty of its members had
been arrested. In a word., the most alarming symptoms of a civil
war wee everywhere breaking forth. .

The suppression of the Military Commissions, besides the triumph
which it has appeared to give to the enemies of peace, to whom they
were a terror, has produced one of those unfortunate results which
was to be apprehended from that hasty measure, namely : there are
already seen bands of malefactors showing themselves round about
the capital, with more audacity than ever ; for we are assured that,
a short time since, they, with the greatest impudence, took away
both arms and horses, as well from travellers as from sportsmen.
The evil will no doubt be increased, inasmuch as the ordinary
course of justice inspires them with but little fear. There is a
rumour that General Bessieres, and Chaperon, President of the
Ex-Military Commission, have been arrested.—. Echo du Midi of
the 25th (Ministerial Journal of Toulouse).

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A monk cf the Order of the Trinity has just been arrested.
Among a quantity of important papers found at his house, the con-
tents of which will throw a great light on passing events, there was
discovered a sum of about 50,000 francs in gold.

A pistol was &red at the carriage of M. Zea Bermudes on the
14th instant, while that gentleman was in it ; but the servant alone
received injury.

TOLOSA, Ar G. 2•2..

We have this moment received letters from Arragon, which fore-
tel that great disasters are going to take place there. The priests
are very active, and are continually saving to the people, " Fear
nothing, all will pass over peaceably." These gentlemen no longer
conceal their object, but they everywhere proclaim Charles Sing
of the Spaniards.

Several of our compatriots, who arrived this morning from
Bilbao, say thst the Royalist Volunteers are now encamped upon
the heights of the city, with cooking utensils, drinking cans, and
*very thing necessary for them. Yesterday they were to exercise
before the Deputies of the province of General Etacheverria, and
two other eminent personages who are not noticed by any particular
mark of distinction. We are ignorant from whence the orders for
these teeming parades emanate; but this much is certain, that
funds are arrived in order to defray the expenses attendant on them*
The following news is just arrived here from :11.ulrld by an ex-
traordinary courier :
The infant Don Carlos had been put under arrest by the King.
The whole of Ressler& family, his wire, and ten, who is an
officer r f the sth light cavalry, and one of the !loyalist Chiefs,
named Cuebillar, have been arrested.

The troops that were sent against Bessieres have betrayed the
muse of the King, and have joined those of the rebel chief. We
are expecting further particulars.
BAYONNE, AL`OUST 23.

Commercial later*, which reached here this morning from dif-
ferent parts of the Peninsula, speak only of the stir making by the
traitor, Beasieres ; the ramifications of the conspiracy appear to ex-
tend from the pillars of llercules to the town of Irati.

Some letters and couriers arrived from Madrid yesterday, and all
that we can gather from them is, that the situation of King Ferdi.
nand is so much the more critical by the troops which were sent
against the rebels, having made common cause with them.
The general opinion is, that we Anil receive here in a day or two
a telegraphic despatch to raise the camp, and send the troops which
have ast.embled there to Spain. They seem to expect this so much,
that in less than an hour everything would be ready for their
departure.—Mentorial Bordelais of Aug. 211