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London, England, 1824-07-24 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

Yesterday we received the Paris papers of Wednesdee
The Momilerr contains a Royal Ordonnance, dated the
'nth of July, at St. Cloud, indemnifying the Duke of
Orleans for giving to the city of Paris his rights and pei,
vileges on the River and Canal d'Ourcq, which were valued
at 800,000 francs. The indemnity is in certain houses is
the Rue St. Vonore, adjoining the Palais Royal, whisk
with the three arcades of the Palais Royal itself, are ees.
firmed to the Duke and his heirs for ever : the rev •
iu default of male issue, to be to the Crown.

On Tuesday the King gave audience at St. (lon to
I Chancellor ; and received a deputation of the (*harsher,/
Pens, who presented five Projects of Law, which da
Chamber had adopted on the preceding day. His Maki
afterwards rode out. The proceedings in the Chain* g
Peers are of no interest ; and those in the Del wits mum
confined to the Budget, which Ministers are, notwitli.
standing the opposition made to it, carrying forward a,.
easefully. In the Lower Chamber the influence of il. de
Villele is undiminished.
IFrom the Journal des 'Jebel:4
Pasts, JULY 21.
M. Raves, President of the Chamber of Deputies, paid a vi
yesterday to M. Pozzo di Bar, which lanced an hoar.
Yesterday evening, at nine o'clock, Count Porno di
Baron Vincent, the Austrian Ambassador, and the !lisleliffst
Prussia, had a conference with Count de Villele, President tills
Council of Ministers, which lasted two hours and a quarter.
They write from Versailles the following t--
" There arrived to-day the third battalion of the 7th reg,meut
the Royal guard, returned from Madrid, and the 3d battalion
the BA rqgent."

_
[From the Immo, dr [omfrierre.)
Count Vißale transacted businaa with his Majesty. The IN
went out at two o'clock.

N'e base letieraTr;ii Madrid of the 14th. N.
Russian Minister, arrived on the likh. It appears be brings is.
sanctions which will establiah harmony between all the FOlllip
Ambassadors, and above aO, upon the important question In is.
Irma to the situation of Spain. Count Ofalia is exiled to Moult..
-the very day this Ina written to us, it was elspmad that the Xi.
Mater of Mar and Minister of Finance would be displaced. 11.
Cardenas de Santa Cruz, Colond in the service of his Cathtit
Majesty. arrived yesterday u courier at Bortheux. He
diately had an interview with the Spanish Ambassador, aft,
which he set cff immediately for Paris. It is said he is the butt
of important despatches; but the lifeweerial Bordelais stated, st
following day, that Colonel Cardenas did not bring any despatebit

!From the Courier Fraseeois.l
Prince Metternich is goin,r from Johannisberg to the waters a
Ischel, where he is expected on the 24th July : it is thought is
will not return to Vienna till August.
The Echo di Midi states, that the Commission establish"! fit
Toulouse. for the purpose of investigating the accounts relative is
the army in Spain, had terminated the)r labours, so fie as "lon
to the year !RAJ, and had proceeded to Bayonne to examine there.
counts for the year 10.4.
The persons who were tried at Toulouse on charges of beariag
arms 'garnet France in Spain, or keeping up intelligenre with Are
enemies a France, were on the 16th all acquitted by the Jen.
That body retired at six o'clock on the 15th, and returned dill
verdict on the 16th. at eight o'clock.
The intelligence from :HUMd is to the Bth instant. latelligews
had been received of the King and Queen's arrival at Cuenca. It
Rppears., though fur what reason is not raved, that the royal sera
wu unexpectedly changed. The King will return to Madrid at ire
end of the month, and afterwards repair to St. lid/Souse with as
Royal Family.
It appears that the Spanish Oorcrnment exercises its autbcrity
with some rigour, in order to secure tranquillity and tie crushed
the laws, and in this it is assisted by the French forces. At
resorts and Borja, in Arrugon some royalist volunteets had ear.
mined such excesses that it became necessary to send a part of ar
French garrison At Saragossa to both places. They dimmed
volunteers, and seising the chiefs, conducted them to the pairs
of Saugoasa.

(From Golignees Messelagrr.l
The Arehduchera Maria Louisa embarked on the Ist lest. c
Naples, on bowl the Christina frigate. for Palermo.
lianas, formerly a Member of the Directorial trovernmeni.
has lived in retirement for several years at Chaillot, is dangnoeq
indisposed.
The Stone contains long extracts from the Modal Gazqlr,
which Bolivar is represented to have lost half his army in a rot
battle, and to have been compelled to re-enter the Colombian"
tory. No dates, however, are given, and the whole is manifiudy
deliberate fabrication. _ .

PARIS STOCK EXCHANGE, JI:LT 21 (CLOSING PIIICV.1;--
French Reines for .11oney, !alt. 50c. ; Elul of the itlooth, 45.:
Scrip. 11r. ; Bank stock, ; Neapolitan. 83; lei;
Excaangc. (one month), 25t. Se.—ttheee months), 241. 90a

DUTCH PAPERS.

We copy the following from the Dutch ropers cini
arrived yesterday :
FIIANXFOIIT, JULY
The Congress at Johannisberg has broken up. M. de I.e.s
chelf, the Russian iNlinister at Vienna, arrived here to-day. T.
morrow we expect Prince Metternich, who will stop tao desy.. Tie
tint day he dines with M. Rutlnichild, the second with the Pie.
'Mem of the. Diet. . . . . . .

We have nothing particular from the Levant, except ett:t these.
clouts from Constantinople of the 13th mention the arrivni Gm.
Suilleminot, the French Ambassador, with a 'WIC of thirty.v.ree
nons, among whom is a Mainote, of the name of Speti.nttnia
This Embassy draws great attention in Pera, which is pro,,,a
occasioned by the unusual behaviour of the General to the WM,.
diplomatic characters, to whom be has mereqy sent his card, mile
haughty manner io general. Some persons already fancy testa
do something in favour of the 0.-ecks, but this is nit prehait:t.-
His negoetations is this field, which is not very
the
to Las
11. peen plomrey, may perhaps be facilitated the ptesoad
quaintance of toe Grar.d Visit, Ghalib w he stet s;'
in IIW7, at the conclusion of the armistice of Sloboje, hem
Russians and the Turks. This is probably the reason that tat...
Pacha initweliately sent a Dragoman of the Porte to comp)iten
him, to whom the presents front the King of France to the wins
were delivered. It is not, however, to be expected, that Net
will now recover that infinenee in the East which it pussessof fen
vious to the year 1816.
Private letters from Constantinople, of the 11th June,
a landing effccteel by the Capitan Pacha in Negrepont. on fdaj,
occasion the Greeks, who voluntarily submitewl, are said wt...te
bee. massacred after they had laid down their arms. The Chi
reports, however, make no mention of it.

GE)tEVA, JcLT.

Our lunatic asylum and our hospital‘ ore filled with utitot!
persona of both sera, whomreligious fanaticisu has deprival 't
their reason. Of late years we have had to deplore several
proceeding (tom this species of madnes, which the fa.ultt. fin
constant experience, consider as the moat difficult to be cured.
Hnoux. Jt,ie

The extrordinary heat of last iVetlneatll7,titelitti,tras sc.
seeded early in the morning of Thursday, the 13th, by a cir's
which, according to the accounts we have received, emendhi wm
the whole province of Holland. over Utrtch, and some neigh 00
ing places, accompanied for the 1110,4 raft with a hlrlarinds,
ning, torrents of rain, and in some places hail
lo the environs of this town, and more to the south, tbi' "birl
did only trilling damage ; but more to the north, as abort Haw•
lent, the bail broke the eau of almost all the windows I:014 Li
the west, and did infinite mischief to the green and bot.hr:ta. tad
to the standing arra. A public-home at the Helder mit istti
the lightning, but nut much damaged.

EDUCATION IN IRELAND.—We understand that eirro'.:s
bare been issued from the Commissioners ncentlY aPT''
ed to inquire into the state of education in Ireland.
circulars are in the form of queries, nineteen or twr
number, and are spread out on an immense beet of
blanks are left opposite the queries, to bc filled up
persons to whom the precept is directed. Having lu
a glance at the form, we cannot be particular as
nature of the questions proposed; they are, bower
can undertake to say, very diatiurt, and apply to
the topics on which the country desires information,
the number of Schools in each palish—the nut
Pupils—the names of the Masters and Mistress
Funds from chich they are am:orb-A—whether t
in connexion with the kildare-street Association, w
Hibernian, the B..ptist, or any other Societies—t
the Bible is a class-book, or the New Testament on
version, whether the authorised or the Douay—th
dim.nts which the system has received—the moti
objects of those impediments. This manifestly re
the interference of Catholic Clergy, in certain ca-t
intcrft renee to which they are bound by their
The question of Proselytism is also put ; and the
the book► read at the different Schools are visa
ed. The ansreers are to he returned on t )
before a Magistrate. We like this ;it wdl give and:
to the answers—a quality which the Reports of
Societies, not excluding that of Kildare-strert,
much in netal.—Dah/in I. r.

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SHAVING—A vnintry larm:T cumin. to Lem,
passing through the city, not a tnik tt,,to the ha
House, entered a dashing hair-dres,cr's shop
reeed up stairs, the el), vatic' of b:!:It in. w:11.,;"•`.
Mimed by a light-hundol dipper Knight ci
who upon being tendered payment, re:ere: d t:
to the mistress below—‘• how much, )swam '.•
crown, if' you please, Sir," said she. " Hair acm
was only shaved," said he. '• W't' aiway, chary.•
Mg, and half a crown'v. regatr." stlcb.
rite," said the astoniihed fartm•r, throwing dmn
and leaving the shop, mutterimr, " I: 1 g''t
L—nh-11 woe., luau a ez:v
Economist.