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Unis is th' fourth day since the arrival of any intelli-
gence from France, on account of the adverse and violent
winds. The last papas we had were those of this day
week, with the dated Saturday, but really publ'slied
on the previous i veiling. If the french Ea NG'S Spceeh,
en cpening the Chambers, should reach us before our pub-
i..stiuti is concluded, we ahar give it inin.ediate

The intelligence received yesterday from Mexico, by way
of New York, gives a gratifying, and. ire have no doubt,
a correct representation of the state of drains in that lidera-
don. The new constitution Las been finally ratified
by the licueral Congrass ; and the first President of the

United Mexican States, General Vicroala, has been ;nail-
guested into office. Bite vo has also taken the oaths as
Vice-President, and the public mind was liil.d with joy
and confidene". We have some mention al-:o of the new
Republic of Central America, formerly the Audieneia of
Guatimala, which the veracious Ft.ile announced some
months ago to have utterly disappeared, in consequence of
the defeats of Bor.:VAR 1 It appears, however, that this
new government, instead of fading from existence, is
augmenting its territory by amicable arrangements with
the neighbouring Union of the Mexican States. Two
provinces, Chiapa and Soconusco, which each of these
Rrpublia was desirous to include within its limits,
have been, with the consent of both, allowed to choose
to which they should belong. One has incorporated
itself with Mexico ; the other with Guatimala. The
local authorities of Yucatan have assumed the right
of suspending the operation or 90111 C general laws of
the Mexican federation, and the Supreme Congress have
directed an inquiry into the subject, but no dissension seems
to have resulted or to be likely to result. The trade of
this province is principally with the Havanna'', and it was
known to bear with impatience the restraints upon itecotn-
mercial intercourse. There was no apparent reason to
dread any general interruption of the public tranquillity.
The death of Uremiva has evidently annihilated the hopes
of the factious.

The Annual General, Meeting of the Shipowners Society
yesterday, was rendered more than usually interesting, by
the references made to the sound and liberal principles on
which his MAJESTY*/ Ministers arc acting with respect
to the trade and navigation of the country. Ott the
commencement of the New Year, the important Sta-
tutes enacted during the last Session of Parliament will
come into operation ; and it is highly gratifying to find
the enlightened merchants of the city of London offering
'the expressions of their perfect approbation of the course
pursued by Government; indeed the great benefits that
will result front the consolidation and amendment of the
laws relating to commerce must be obvious even to those
who are nut exposed to the practical inconveniences of the
confusion and uncertainty formerly existing on this subject•
The opening of the Committee's Report adverted to the
bills introduced by Mr. Maas as, at the close of last session,
for repealing all the present laws of Custom., and com-
prising, under four new statutes, all the legislative pro-
visions which it is deemed c.pedient to retain. The laws
relating to the Customs now in force are no fewer than 469
in number. The consolidating of the Navigation Laws,
according to the statement of Mr. Pow Les yesterday, has
rendered them so easily intelligible, that "any Shipowner
may make his shipmaster understand the whole tendency of
them in a week." A similarly advantageous consequence
will accrue from the projected consolidation of the Laws of
Customs.

The electioneering contest which has agitated the Ward
of Farringdon Without for three days, terminated last
night very singularly. The candidates between whom the
struggle seemed to lie have all been returned, and two old
servants, to whose election no party objected, have been ?e-
-jected. It appears from the speeches at the close of the
poll, that great disgust had been excited by the proceed-
ings of a self-constituted junta, or ward-club, who had
assumed the patronage of the representation, and the object
of the householders was chiefly to abate this nuisance.
Hence we find those candidates ranking mum:tic:illy, ac-
cording, to the resistance they made to this tkt-rading and
offensive system, by which the Common Councilmen
of the IVard were, if they would submit, in fact re-
duced to abject dependence on the will of some other-
whs., unknown, and perhaps obscure individuals. Mr.
GALLO WA Y, who was list year excluded on account
of a toast, supposed, but cl. arty (according to his expla-
nation on Tuesday) erroneously supposed, to imply his
approbation of the infidel writings of Paine, was restored
to his seat in the Civic Parliament, by, we believe, a larger
timber of votes than he had ever before received. The
Ward had apparently one chief object in view, and that
they fully accomplished. The nominees of the club were
alone rejected ; and as we really wish well to the freedom
of election, in its full and proper sense, we congratulate
the Ward upon the scant( of their efforts to put down the
contemptible body of dictators that presunied to determine
who should be their representatives.

The efforts to spread an alarm as to the explosion to be
apprehended in Ireland, go on as briskly as ever. Sir
11A6COCAT LEES would fain persuade us that the Protest-
ants are all to have their throats cut some fine morning ;
and, to he sure, if the Catholic body consisted of such
clacked subjects as Sir HAIRCOITAT, not a Protestant old
lady would get a wink of sleep. The truth is, that the
Orange faction do not, in their hearts, believe that there is
any real danger to the Church, or even to the Church-porch.
Their alarm arises from a very different source; they fear
that the collective voice of the Irish nation, together with
the detail of its wrongs and sufferings, will at length pro-
duce. an investigation, on the part of the British Parlia-
ment, into the origin of those wrongs, and the train of
those sufferings; sud that this may lead to the restikting
the PaoveieraNzs to their just rights under the Consti-
tution, and to the restoring to the CATHOLICS flair just
rights ; and that the system of government in Ireland may
be made to rest on that solid basis of justice which it is
the anxious wish of his MAJLITT that it should rest, and
on the principles of which it has been the earliest and suc-
cessful endeavour of the LOAD Li TENANTCU to administer
it. The Orange zealots are violent in their outcry against
the bigoted and exterminating spirit which they say is in the
very 'narrow of the Catholic priesthood ; and they give them-
selves the praise of great fmnleration, as pursuing their oppo-
nents no further than as " 14ra:sprits OF THZ FAITH,
WWI so
.forth," they arc under the painful necessity of
doing. They remind us, in this respect, of KEN sanv,
a moderator of the Scotch Assembly, who, in one of
his prayers, has this passage:—" Good Lord, I think
it best to make a clean house, by sweeping them (the
Episcopalians) all out at the dour; and casting them
out to the midden (dunghill)." The spirit of this
211,nbratur and his balmy caustic, displays itself very
frequently in sectarian contests. Some there are, of
both parties, who, we have no doubt, would willingly
reform both Church and State, after the manner of
NA LYON, who, in a FAST SERMON, 111-CACIIOII before the
House or Commons, April W, 164 U, thus entreats them to
t zercise their spiritual authority :—" You have the broom
.Ib..formation in your hand; for the Lord Jesus' sake
do somewhat to cleanse us—sweep the ('naacm, US well as
:he COICAONWLALTII." We have no apprehension, how-
ever, that the spirit of reform is at all likely to take this
elliptical diicetion, although we are at the same time not
insensible to the danger that may arise from any Association
engendered in religious zeal, which frequently carries the
best limn down the same current with the worst. We by