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And it lad Weenie unpopular with the people, as they' conceived %t
'to contain some very obnoxious 'provisions , such, for example, as
exacting from the Mexican Government the free toleration of reli-
glen, the cession of the Californias, &c. The Editor of the Sol
takes up two columns of his paper in correcting these erroneous no-
tions.
The Federal Congress of Guatimala was employed in passing
laws for raising a revenue, suppressing smuggling, protecting agri
culture, commerce, and manufactures of the country, and providing
foe the immediate organisation of a Senate.

There was some conversation last night in the House of
Lords on the Bill for amending the Combination Laws,
The Marquis of LAICIDOWN complained that this measure
was brought before their Lordships at too late a period of
the Session ; but he was unwilling to oppose it, lest he
should prevent it from passing, being fully coevinced that
some remedy was necessary for the existing evils. In re-
ply to these observations, the Earl of LIVERPOOL con-
tended that the Bill was essential to the quiet and tran-
quillity of the country. The Noble Earl stated that if lie had
j been aware of the provisions of the Act of last &salon he
would not have suffered it to pass without opposition. That
Act repealed not only all the Statutes relating to combina-
tions, but the whole of the common law also. The object of
the present Bill is to prevent combinations, whether of work-
men or masters, for any purpose but that of deciding with
regard to the arrangements, as to time and wages, they may
think tit to prefer for themselves. Looking at the state of
the manufacturing districts during the last year, there can be
no doubt that some enactment was required for the protec-
tion of those who were not parties to the dangerous
confederacies formed by the journeymen in wine of the
principal trades, sur well as for the preservation of the
public peace. The Bill now before Parliament is well
devised to meet the exigencies of the moment, and there-
fore it has our cordial approbation.

CITY, MONDAY EVENING,

The English Funds are a shade dearer this day than they were
on Saturday. They are not now influenced by political occur.
rences, and nothing but increased capital can, under the blessings
which peace is conferring on the world, effect any great variation
in their value.
South American Securital are also a shade higher. Freach
Beiges have advanced about one-half per cent. illoney is more
plentiful, and as its Int'rest decrea•.es, the value of National Se-
curities must be proportionately enhanced.

Nothing is more necessary to a commercial community
than the rapid transmissions of mercantile information.
This principle is peculiarly applicable to Ireland, and his
Majesty's Post-Master-General has done every thing in his
power to render the communication betwixt Great Britain
and Ireland as perfect as possible, by the establishment of
steam-packets on the Milford, Holyhead, and Portpatrick
stations. The system is now so complete, that on the lat-
ter station alone is any improvement requisite, for cer-
tainly one day's post may be saved on the Portpatrick sta-
tion by a proper attention to the mail coach arrangements.
The Dublin mail arrives in Belfast at 9 in the morning,
where, for some reason not understood, it remains till 3 in
the afternoon, when it proceeds to Donnaghadee. Thus
six hours are lost at Belfast. From Donnaghadee to Port-
patrick the passage by steam 2 hours, arid with foul
winds 3 hours. The Dublin snail, therefore, arrives at
the latter place ate in the evening. The London and Port-
patricleitoyal Mail starts from the latter place at 6 o'clock
on the following morning, thus losing at Portpatrick not
less certainly than ten hours. It arrives at Carlisle about
11 or 12 o'clock on the same night, and is there again
detained until seven o'clock the next morning, when it
joins the mail from Glasgow to London. Thus twenty-
four hours are positively lost in the transmission of intelli-
gence betwixt Dublin and the north of England ; for
which however the remedy is most easy. The mail from
Dublin may arrive at Belfast at eight o'clock in the morn-
ing, and thejettersav he in Portpatrick at three o'clock
ne t ortpatricialk marl may then stint at four in the
afternoon, mad it would thus arrive at Carlisle early enough
on the succeeding morning to meet the mail from Glasgow
for London, by which change twenty-four hours would be
gained in the communication betwixt Great Britain and Ire-
land by this station. The communication betwixt Belfast
and Glasgow is on the worst footing, for there is no road
betwixt Girvan and Stranraer on which a mail coach can
with safety be driven. if the Ayrshire gentlemen pleased,
an excellent road could be made for less than 15,0001.
according to the estimate of Mr. Telford, by which the
time necessary for a journey betwixt Glasgow and Belfast
would be reduced to about seventeen hours, being shorter
than the time required by the steam vessels betwixt
Greenock and Belfast, under the most favourab:e
ci

The valuable correspondence betwixt
Glasgow and Ireland is at present intrusted to a
boy on horseback betwixt Portpatrick and Ayr; and
there is an instance of some of his bags being found
on the road and returned to the nearest postmaster.
The establishment of the Post-office has nothing where-
with to blame itself for this state of the Ayrshire road,
dependin,,, as it does, entirely on the county gentlemen ;
though after the great expense to which they sub-
jected themselves by the establishment of two expensive
steam packets on the Portpatrick station, they have a good
right to require that a mail coach road be made betwixt
Gir van and Stranraer by the proprietors of that fine country.
The road would pay itself if any public establishment
undertook its formation, for the traffic on it would be
great.

Extract of a letter received yesterday morning by an
eminent Italian mercantile establishment, dated from Malta
on the I4th of June :

" I have now great pleasure in advising vou, that, although in
my letter of the Sth of this month I expressed to you my doubts of
the news, a confirmation has since been receives( here of the de-
struction of the Egyptian fleet, which had disembarked troops in
the 3lorea. It is now certain that thirty-two of their ships have
been burned by Admiral Miaulis, of which thirteen were large
ships, and belonging to the Egyptian Government. The destruc-
tion of the fortress of illrtdon has also been confirmed. This event
crested much alarm amongst the Ottoman forces, and the conse-
quence was their flight to Curon. In this attempt, however, the)
were intercepted by the Christians, and many of them were made
prisoners, including nearly all the chiefs and officers."
This letter does not mention the surrender of Navarino,
although its writer, in his communications of the 4th of
June, expressed his fetas that the garrison hail been com-
pelled to submit to the invaders of Greece. It may there-
fore be presumed that the arrival of Ibrahim Paella at
Coren, mentioned in letters from that neighbourhood,
dated early in June, is cc .rest, and that the fate of Nava-
rino was decided when the Egyptian fleet was destroyed.
Letters from Constantinople, dated May 28, mention the
death of another child of the Sultan by small-pox, making
the third which he has lost by this disease within a short
period. It seems, however, that he does not allow these
domestic calamities to interfere with public business, and
that he is indefatigable in his preparations for reinforcing
his armies in Greece. Oa the 24th it was announced that
his troops had taken possession of Fort Ligor, before Ana-
tolico, and that more than 20,000 men were marching upon
Missolonghi. Of these, however, 11,000 are acknowledged
!to be Albanians, upon whom the Porte places but little re-
liance, as they serve the 'f arks only for the purpose of se-
curing their possessions, and would, with the first oppor-
tunity, turn upon their present allies.
The Lisbon Packet that arrived yesterday brought let-
ters to the 18th June, but they contain no public news
whatever.

The following were yesterday morning stuck up at
Lloyd's:—.

" GIBRALTAR. JUNE 11.
" The Flor de Despiqwe Aranje, which cleared hence 19th ult.
for Para, detained by a Spanish guard' costa, and carried into Al.
gesinis, has been rcle,ased, and returned here yesterday."
" Pants, JULY 1.

" Some armed vessels quitted St. Antler without notice, have
plundered a Dutch vessel, on the pretext of having Spanish pro-
perty on hoard. They stated that they carried letters of marque
from the Colombian agent at Gibraltar."

Tho letters from Demerara, dated 14th May. state the
colony to be very unhealthy, on aceannt of the continued
drought. Several old settlers have fallen victims to the
fever. There had, however, latterly been some partial
rains.

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