The Sun.
London, England, 1830-04-13 00:00:00

THE JEWS.

Mr. Goldsmid estimates the number of the Jews
in London to be about 18,000, and in the rest of
England about 9,000; and they have several
synagogues in the metropolis and other parts of the
kingdom. The two principal sects are German and
Portuguese.
As the terms of the edict under which Napoleon
Buonaparte elevated the Jews to the ranks of
citi-
zens in France may probably be referred to in the
coming discussions we insert them for the informa-
tion of our readers. This edict interdicted Jews
from lending money to minors without the consent
of their guardians, to wives witF.out the consent of
their husbands, and to soldiers without the consent
of their officers. It annulled all bills for which
" value received" could not be proved. All Jews
engaged in commerce were obliged to take out a
patent; all strangers to invest some property in land
and agriculture. It may also be well to give the
twelve questions proposed by the Emperor to the
Sanhedrin, in the year 1806, together with the an-
swers returned, because they will tend to show what
are the opinions of the betier classes of the Jews on
the continent, although we ei.tirely agree with Mil-
man in the belief that they do riot express the au-
thoritative sentence of the nation, nor, indeed, we
would add, of the multitude here. The questions
were—l. Is polygamy allowed among the Jews ?
11. Is divorce recognised by the Jewish law ? 111.
Can Jews intermarry with Christians ? IV. Will
the French people be esteemed by the Jews as
strangers or as brethren ? V. In what relation, ac-
cording to the Jewish law, would the Jews stand
towards the French ? VI. Do Jews born in France
consider it their native country ? Are they bound
to obey the laws and customs of the land ? VII.
Who elect the rabbins ? VIII. What are the legal
powers of the rabbit's ? IX. Is the election and
authority of the rabbit's grounded on law or cus-
tom? X. Is there any kind of business in which the
.Jews may not be engaged ? XI. Is usury to their
brethren forbidden by law ? XII. Is it permitted or
forbidden to practice usury with strangers ?
The answers were :—I. Polygamy is forbidden
according to a Decree of the Synod of Worms in
1030. 11. Divorce is allowed, but in this respect
Jews recognise the authority of the civil law of the
land in which they live. 111. Intermarriages with
Christians are not forbidden, though difficulties
arise from the different forms of marriage. IV. The
Jews of France recognise in the fullest sense the
French people as their brethren. V. The relation
of the Jew to the Frenchman is the same as Jew to
Jew: the only distinction is in their religion. VI.
The Jews acknowledged France as their country
when oppressed—how much more must they when
admitted to civil rights? VII. The election of the
rabbins is neither defined nor uniform. It usually
rests with the heads of each family in the'commu-
nity. VIII. The rabbins have no judicial power :
the sanhedrin is the only legal tribunal. The Jews
of France and Italy, being subject to the equal laws
of the land, whatever power they might otherwise
exercise is annulled. IX. The election and power
of the rabbins rests solely on usage. X. All busi-
ness is permitted to the Jews. The Talmud en-
joins that every Jew be taught some trade. Xl. and
XII. The Mosaic institution forbids unlawful interest,
but this was the law of an agricultural people. The
Talmud allows interest to be taken from brethren
and stranger. It forbids usury,—llforning Paper.

STATE PAPER.

The following is an Abstract of an Order of
the King in. Council for Consolidating the seve-
ral Laws recently made for Improving the Con-
dition of the Slaves in his Majesty's Colonies of
Trinidad, Berbice, Demerara, St. Lucia, the
Cape of Good Hope, and Mauritius—dated
February 2, 1830, and presented yesterday to
both Houses of Parliament :

Article I. Recites and repeals all the laws for
improving the condition of Slaves made in the
Crown Colonies since the Trinidad Order in
Council of the 10th of March, 1824, including
that order, and provides that the repeal shall
not bar prosecutions for past offences, nor des-
troy any vested rights.
11. Orders the appointment of a Protector o
Slaves in each of the Crown Colonies, saving
existing offices.
111. Relates to the salary of Protectors of
Slaves, and .the oaths to be taken by them.
IV. The Protectors to keep offices, the hours
of their attendance, and the custody of their
records.

V. The Protectors not to be owners or ma-
nagers of Slaves on pain of a forfeiture of office.
Until that forfeiture is publicly declared, all
intermediate acts are to be valid. The Pro-
tector may hire Slaves for his domestic service
if unable to hire free servants.

VI. The Protectors to be constantly resident
except by the licence of the Secretary of State.
In case of sickness the Governor may grant a
leave of absence for a limited time.
VII. On the death of Protectors or other
avoidance of office, temporary assistants to be
appointed with salaries, and to be qualified (i.
possible) in the same manner as the principals
VIII. Assistant Protectors to be appointed
to execute all lawful instructions of the Pro-
tector.

IX. In cases of complaints by or against
Slaves, the Protector or Assistant Protector
cannot act as a Magistrate.
X. The Protector or Assistant Protector is
to have notice of all prosecutions against Slaves
in capital or transportable cases, and of suits
affecting their freedon and property, and of pro-
secutions for offences against their persons, and
is to attend on behalf of the Slave.

XI. The Protector or Assistant Protector, on
receiving notice of an injury done to a Slave, is
to inquire into the case, and, if necessary, is
to sue or prosecute the wrong doer.
XII. Sunday markets absolutely prohibited.
XIII. Proceedings to be had for the disper-
sion of markets holden on the Sunday.
XIV. The prohibition of the public sale of
goods on Sunday in shops or elsewhere.
XV. The sale of certain perishable articles,
permitted, except during Divine Service.
XVI. The Governor is to appoint one market
day in each week.

-XVII. Prohibition of labour on Sunday.
XVIII. Penalty on persons working their
Slaves on Sunday, not less than 30s. nor more
than 3/.

XIX. Excepts the labour of domestic ser-
vants.

XX. Slaves may be employed on Sunday in
works of necessity. The Governor by procla-
mation to define what works are necessary. No-
tice to be given to the Protector of every such
employment of Slaves.
XXI. The whip may not be carried in the
field, as a stimulus to labour, nor as an emblem
of authority, nor used except for the punishment
of a fault previously committed.
XXII. Females may not be punished by
whipping. Males may not receive more than
twenty-five stripes for one offence, nor more than
twenty-five lashes in one day, nor any whipping,
so long as any unhealed scars remain on the body,
nor unless one free witness or six slaves be pre-
sent.

XXIII. Excepts judicial punishment.
XXIV. Punishments of Female Slave Chil-
dren excepted, if not more severe than punish-
ments legally inflicted in schools on children of
free condition.

XXV. The Governors authorised to prescribe
the modes of punishment which in the case of
Female Slaves are to be substituted for the pu-
nishment by the whip.
XXVI. The Protector in each Colony is to
deliver to every Manager of Slaves, annually, a
book for keeping a record of all punishments
inflicted on Plantation Slaves.

XXVII. The Manager is to insert in the
books an account of every punishment, the age
and sex of the Slave, the offence, the time, and
place, where committed, the extent of punish-
ment, by whom authorized and inflicted, and the
witnesses present.
XXVIII. Penalties on omitting to make
entries, and on false or fraudulent entries,
erasures, &c.

XXIX. Half-yearly returns to be made of
the entries in these books, on the oath of the
Manager.
XXX. In cases where the Manager cannot
write, he may employ another person to write
the record, and is to be sworn in a different
form.

XXXI. In cases where no punishments have
been inflicted during the half-year, a special re-
turn on oath to be made of that fact.

XXXII. The Protector is to supply all Ma-
nagers with blank forms of returns, and to pub-
lish the time and place when he will attend to
receive them. In case of sickness, the Manager
to be attended at his own home.

XXXIII. Penalties on persons omitting to
make their returns.
XXXIV The Assistaot Protectors are to
transmit their returns to the Protector, with a
list of defaulters, and the Assistant Protec-
tors to make their own returns to the Protector

XXXV. The Protector may send back for
correcting returns improperly or irregularly made.
XXXVII. Slaves are declared competent to
all XthXe XreVtul. rnsTwhe Protector
hichhemayirs to
eceiveen.rol in books
marry.
cciio r
is to grant he
XXXVIII. A Slave desiring to marry must
apply for a licence to the Piotector, and pro-
duce the owner's consent. If the owner re-
fuses,
be is to belicence,
esummonede:
injurious
atime the
Slave,
Scotch,
i y English,Protec-
torso ; and if the Protector is not satisfied that
the
emarriage would b
a n

XLII. Slaves may acquire property of any
amount, and !ming and defend actions for it.
XLIII. Slaves may not be proprietors of
boats, ammunution, &c.

XLIV. Slaves may not be the proprietors of
Slaves.

XLV. Slaves may not be taken in execution
in satisfaction of debts contracted by themselves.
XLVI. Slaves not to be separated under legal
process if bearing to each other any of the re-
lations hereinmentioned.

XLVII. Separation of families are not to
,ake place on the death of their owners intestate.

XLVIII. Husbands and wives, parents and
children, may not be separated from each other
by conveyance, contract, or will.
XLIX. In cases where it is unknovin or
doubtful whether a Slave has any such relations,
the Protector is to enquire into and certify the
fact.

L. If Slaves standing in the prescribed rela-
tions to each other shall signify to the Protector
their willingness to be separated, and if the Pro-
tector should consider the separation neither in-
jurious to the Slaves, nor improper in itself, he
may authorise the separation, except in the case
of husbands and wives.

LI. Slave children above the age of 16 may
be separated from their parents.
LII. All fees of office and duties on manu-
missions abolished.

LIII. All persons may manumit Slaves be-
onging to them with the concurrence of all the
ioint owners.

LIV. If the Slave is manumitted gratuitously,
bond must be given for his maintenance if he
be less than six or more than fifty years old, or
in a state of disease.

LV. The bond not necessary in case of testa-
mentary manumissions, but the estate of the tes-
tator to remain liable as though such bond had
been given.
LVI. With the concurrence of the Protector,
Slaves may contract with their owners for their
purchase of their freedom.

LVII. Slaves may effect the purchase of their
freedom by a compulsory process. If the owner
be unwilling or unable to effect the manumission
or labour, under any incapacity, or if an exces-
sive price be demanded, the Chief Judge is to
cite all persons having an interest in the Slave
to attend him.

LVIII. On proof made to the Judge of such
incapacity, &c. he is to require the Protector
and owner each to name an appraiser, and is
himself to name an umpire. The Judge, when
necessary, is to nominate the appraiser also.
LIX. The appraisers to make a valuation in
seven days, failing which the umpire is to make
the valuation.

LX. On proof to the Judge of fraud or in-
justice in making the valuation, he may set it
aside and so on till an unobjectionable valuation
is made.

XI. If the amount is not pid in ree
moLnths, the proceedings cancelled la ,
and no three
new
valuation can be made for twelve months.

LXII. In making the valuation, the appraisers
are to take into account all the qualities of the
Slave and other facts which they may think
material.

LXIII. If it is proved to the satisfaction of
the Judge that the money to be paid by the Slave
has been acquired by a donation inter vivos,
made with the intent of enabling the Slave to
purchase his freedom, the proceedings are to be
stayed.
LXIV. If it be proved that within five years
the Slave has committed any robber), the pro-
ceedings are to be stayed till the end of that term.
LXV. The Protector may pay to the Co-
lonial Treasurer the price of the Slave in three
months from the valuation, and enrol the receipt
in the Supreme Court, after which the Slaves to
be free.

LXVI. The Governor is to establish a table
of fees to be taken on this process.
LXXII. The expence of the proceedings is
to be borne by the owners.
LXVIII. The purchase money is to be in-
vested when necessary.
LXIX. The Judge is to make all necessary
rules for the conduct of the proceedings on com-
pulsory manumissions.
LXX. The evidence of Slaves to be admitted.
LXXI. Forfeiture of Slaves on conviction of
the owner for cruelty.
LXXII. The punishment of Slaves making
calumnious accusations.

LXXIII. Penalties for falsifying records.
LXXIV. Misdemeanors to be punished by
fine, of from 101. to 5001.

LXXV. Punishment of perjury.
LXXVI. The Protector authorised to sue for
penalties.

LXXVII. Relates to the recovery and ap-
plication of fines.

LXXVIII. All fines to be recovered in
British sterling money, and between the limits
fixed in the Order, the Court in its discretion to
determine the amount of the fine.
LXXIX. The Governor's Proclamation to be
transmitted for confirmation.

LXXX. The Protectors are to make half
yearly reports, as the condition of receiving their
salaries.

LXXXI. Relates to the explanation of parti-
cular terms.

LXXXII. Commands the publication of this
Order in the different Colonies

On Friday last, a girl named TEMPERANCE
WILLIAMS, aged thirteen, was sentenced to three months
imprisonment, for " having occasioned divers unusual
noises, animation of inanimate things, burning of linen,
woollen, &e. in the house of Mr. llosEttea, at Sulgrave,
Penzance, Cornwall." The ease excited great interest,
many of the witnesses believing that the noises, &e. in
question arose from supernatual causes.—Falmouth
Packet.

REVOLTING DEPRAVlTY.—Yesterday a
child only about fourteen years old, and small for her age,
appeared before the Magistrates at College-street Police-
office, to charge an unfortunate associate in crime with
having taken 2s. from her on the previous night. When
questioned as to her connection with the prisoner, she
detailed the following circumstances : —Her father had been
:t painter, and was dead two years ; her mother and a younger
sister were living, and were supported by her prostitution!
She had been employed selling fruit in the Four Courts, and
was seduced some time ago by a young lawyer, and since
that had pursued the unhappy course thus opened for her.
She denied that her mother or any female acquaintance
had instigated her to these habits, but that she pursued
them of her own accord, and divided the profits of her
melancholy pursuit with her parent and her associates !
We forbear to give the name of her seducer, who is a
young gentleman-of respectable family and character, but
we deplore that any man of his rank and society should
be so connected with such depravity.—Dublin Morning
I?eyistef of Sat ii

THE PORTUGUESE REGENCY.

DECREE.

". Having, lee,myß.eyal, decree of -the 3d of March last
int., ordered that sthe.kingdoms of Portugal and the Al-
garves; and the dominions 'thereto belonging, should be
governed in the name of my dear and much-beloved
daughter,- Donna Maria, their Queen (according to the
Constitutional Charter given by me for the said monarchy,
and to which the Clergy, Nobility, and People have
sworn), I expressly declared the time to have arrived,
which in my best judgment I had fixed upon as the period
at which my abdication of the Portuguese Crown should
be completed, and when I should cease to have any farther
claim to the said crown and its dominions ; it has, how-
ever, come to pass, that the Infante Don Miguel, my
brother, and Lieutenant and Regent of those kingdoms,
to whom the execution and publication of my decree of
3d of March last year was confided, not only has not pub-
lished and executed the same, but with manifest abuse of
my confidence, and with the not less manifest breach of the
obedience and fidelity which in the most public and solemn
manner he repeatedly promised by word and oath to me as
his lawful Sovereign and King, and moreover contrary to
his formal recognition of my aforesaid dear and much-
beloved daughter, Donna Maria IL as reigning Queen, in
virtue of my abdication, with whom in that quality he se-
lemsly contracted espousals, has revolted in the said king-
doms, calling himself and causing himself to be called
King and Sovereign thereof, whereby he has suppressed
the office of Lieutenancy and Regency which I delegated
to him, usurped a Crown to which he has no title, and
ovethrown the institutions which were granted by my sove-
reign and legitimate authority, for the purpose of pro-
moting and securing the greatness and prosperity of the
said kingdoms, which institutions he had, in the face of
Europe, swore faithfully to maintain, and cause to he
maintained. From those events, which have occurred
since my Royal Decree of the 3d of March last year, have
resulted, along with all the evils' which now afflict the
kingdoms of Portugal, the Algarves, and their depen-
dencies, the further fatal consequences of the said king-
doms being destitute of any legitimate government for
ruling and administering the same ; and of the said
Decree of the said 3d of March, emanated from my royal,
legitimate, and recognized power, remaining unpublished;
and of the rights of my dear and much-beloved
daughter being left without any authority to protect or
defend them, or to cause them to be acknowledged and
respected. And whereas there is not in the public jurispru-
dence of Portugal any law applicable to the present case,
accompanied as it is by so many extraordinary and un-
foreseen circumstances, nor is there in Portugal any Go-
vernment which, in order to supply with legislative forms
this omission, can legitimately convoke a new Chamber of
Deputies, and re-constitute a Chamber of Peers, now
almost extinct by the voluntary renunciation of the greater
part of its members; it is only from my dear and much-
loved daughter, Donna Maria IL, the legitimate reigning
Queen, (I, as her guardian and natural protector, supply-
ing what is defective in her age), that can proceed the
remedy for such dreadful evils, to oppose which she is au-
thorized by the great misery and oppression under which
she sees the people whom Divine Providence has confided
to her maternal care,—by the urgent necessity of restoring
to the kingdoms of Portugal, the Algarves, and their de-
pendencies, the political relations with other nations which
the usurpation has interrupted ; by the natural and im.
prescriptible right of defence against every aggressor, or of
recovering from every usurper the crown which justly be-
longs to her by the most legitimate and completely re-
cognized rights; and, finally, by the example of what has
been done in similar or analogous cases in other Euro-
pean States.
6' For these reasons, in the character of guardian and
natural protector of my dear and much-beloved daughter,
Donna Maria 11. aroresaid, I have thought fit to create
and appoint a regency, which in her royal name shall
rule, govern, and administer the kingdoms of Portugal,
Algarves, and their dominions, and shall in them fulfill and
cause to he published and carried into effect my decree of
the 3d of March of last year, and cause her legitimate and
imprescriptible rights to be in every other manner pre-
served and respected.
" The Regency shall consist of three members, who
"hall appoint a Minister and Secretary of State, who shall
discharge the duties of all the departments of the affairs
of the said state, until the royal authority of the Queen
regnant be established throughout the whole of the mo-
narchy, or the separation of the departments become ne-
cessary. The questions shall be decided by the majority
of votes ; and in the case of the deficiency of a member
the Regency, or of any impediment to attendance, the
Illinieter and Secretary of State shall act for the absent
Regent, if there be only one 111;nicter and if there be
more thin one, the duty shall be performed by the Mi-
ni-ter who has the seniority of appointment. If the de-
ficiency or impediment he of a permanent nature,
the Regency_ shall nominate a successor, it being, how-
ever, provided that no person shall be so nominated who
is not at the date of the present decree of the Council of
her Most Faithful Majesty. On the first meeting, the
Regency shall take the appropriate oath, of which a form
for all the members shall be preserved in the archives.
"And I nominate for the said Regency, the Marquis of
Palmella, of the Council of State of the Queen Regnant,
who shall be President; the Count of Villa Flor, Peer of
the realm ; and the Counsellor Jose Antonio Guerreiro,
who must direct and take the necessary measures for the
complete execution of the present decree.
" Palace of the Imperial. Quinta of the Boa-Vista, June
lA, 18$9. (Signed by his Imperial Majesty.)
" We order .the above to be executed, registered, and
published.
" Government Palace, Angra, March 15, 1830.
" Marquis of PALMELLA,
" Count of VILLA FLOR,
" JOSE ANTONIO GUERREIRO."

0 PROCLAMATION.

" Portuguese,—The Regency created for governing the
kingdoms of Portugal and the Algarves, and their domi-
nions, in the name of the Senhora Donna Maria II , our
lawful Queen, is installed in the Portuguese territory.
" The usurpation, which in 1828 annulled all the acts
by which Don Pedro IV. abdicated the crown of Portugal,
would authorize him to resume the sovereignty of those
kingdoms without any stipulation or condition. Neverthe-
less, constantly influenced by his desire for the happiness'of
the people whom Divine Providence has intrusted to his
paternal government, and wishing to avoid even the slightest
appearance of the unicn of Portugal with Brazil, his Ma-
jesty renounces his right, maintains his abdication in favour
of his dear and much-loved daughter, now our Queen, and
as her father, guardian, and natural protector, has insti-
tuted a Regency, whose first duty is to maintain and defend
the unalterable rights of her Majesty, our august Sovereign.
" Portuguese, you should be grateful for so many bless-
ings. The whole world knows your unalterable fidelity to
your legitimate Sovereigns, and the unconquerable bravery
which has characterized you in all times; and if the weight
of calamitous circumstances has for a time overpowered
the I.ction of such sublime virtues, the Regency hopes to
see them in a short time manifested, uniting you to the
common and legal centre of authority, which, in the name
of your legi:inut.e. Sovereign, is happily installed in this
part of the Portuguese soil, against which has been shat-
tered all the force of the enemies of the throne.

" The Regency of the kingdom, determined to preserve
uninjured the sacred deposit which has been intrusted to
it of the rights of your legitimate Queen, and of the in-
stitutions of the country, hopes that all Portuguese will
unite their forces to assist us, and while it recalls to their
memory the still recent example of Spain and of Greece,
reduced to one bulwark, and yet nevertheless triumphing
ever the power of their oppressor. Such force has per-
severance in the support of justice and of national inde..

prudence..
" Portuguese, it is only from a legitimate Government
that there can flow public tranquillity and individual
security ; it is only such a Government that can unite
under a paternal sceptre all aiiied of citizens, and which,
calming the force of the passions, can heal the wounds
of our country, while, on the other hand, an intrusive
and illegal Government is supported only by the violence
of faction, by the rigour and cruelty of individual perse-
cution.

" At the voice of legitimacy we shall see arming in our
favour all generous spirits : the Sovereigns of Europe
must applaud our efforts, and God, who in 1626 accepted
of our Baths, will bless our cause.

" Government Palace, Angra, March 20, 1930.
" Marquis of PALMELLA.
" Count of VILLA FLOR.
" JOSE ANTONIO GUERREIRO."

Petitions to both Houses of Parliament are
now in course of signature among the Members of the
University of Cambridge, praying for a repeal of the civil
disabilities affecting British-born subjects professing the
Jewish
religion. It has already taceived the signatures
of some of the leading members in that seat of learning,
and among the names of those who first set their hands to
it we observe that of the Rev. Dr. WARD, of St, John's
College. The petition to the House of Commons will be
intrusted to Lord PALMIERSTON, who is very friendly to
the measure, and has promised to support the prayer of it
in his seat. The second reading of the Bill is fixed for the
Nd of May.--.Leamington Spa Courier.

LONDON,
TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 13, 1880.

Despatches were received at the Colonial
Office this morning from Lord BELMORE,
Governor of Jamaica, dated the 23d of February.
Despatches were also received from the respec-
tive Governors of the whole of the Leeward
Islands.

Lord ABERDEEN arrived in town this morn-
ing from his seat, the Priory, Stanmore ; Baron
BuLow, the Prussian Ambassador, had an au-
dience with his Lordship at the Foreign Office.

We stated yesterday that the Marquis of
PALMELLA and the Regency had safely arrived
at Terceira, on the 15th of March, where great
satisfaction was expressed at his Excellency's
escape from the Portuguese vessels of war which
were watching to intercept the Regency. It
would appear, that a manceuvre was successfully
resorted to by the Marquis PALMELLA—that
of transferring the Regency from the vessel in
which it sailed from this country to an American
ship, which proceeded to the island in sight of
the squadron lying off it, the Commander of it,
it would seem, not being at all aware of what was
going forward, though he had, from previous in-
formation, been on the alert to prevent the land-
ing of the Regency.
Immediately on landing, the Marquis PAL-
MELLA proceeded to constitute the new Go-
vernment in the name of the young QUEEN.
The Regency consists of the Marquis PAL-
MELLA, Count VILLA FLOR, and Councillor
GUERREIRO. The documents received from
Terceira, connected with the establishment of
the Regency, or emanating from it, are various.
The first is an order of the day by Count VILLA
ILon, altering the mode of military corres-
pondence. The second is the decree of the
EMPEROR nominating the members of the Re-
gency, dated June 15, 1829. The third is a
decree of the Regency, appointing M. Luis DA
SILVA MOUZINHO DE ALBUQUERQUE, their
secretary. The fourth is a decree of the Re-
gency, continuing the military command of the
Azores in Count VILLA FLOR. The fifth is
an order of the day communicating to the troops,
by their commander, Count VILLA FLOE, the
satisfaction of the Regency at their zeal, loyalty,
and gallant defence of their Sovereign's rights ;
and the sixth is a proclamation, issued by the
Regency, and signed by themselves and their Se-
cretary, to the Portuguese ration. The decree
of the EMPEROR, and the proclamation, being
the only important documents, are given in
another column.

The following is from our Paris Corre-
spondent, with some extracts from the Papers of

Sunday :

" PARIS, APRIL 1 .1.

" The open mid undisguised support which has
lately been given by the Gazette de France to the
pretensions of M. de Villele, as a candidate for re-
admission into the Cabinet, in opposition to the
known wishes of the President of the Council, is
now understood to have produced the alternative
effect which was to have been expected from it. M.
de Vilele leaves Paris to-morrow, and the Gazette
de France is no longer the organ of the Polignac
Administration. Such at least is the opinion enter-
tained by well-informed individuals, on whose means
of procuring, and on whose perspicacity in appre-
ciating,
intelligence I am accustomed to place con-
sperable reliance. At the same time I find it dif-
ficult to believe that e. man like the ex-Minister,

who is justly regarded by his party as individually
possessed of more shrewdness and sagacity, than the
collective mass of the existing Administration, should
abandon the views which brought him to Paris, and
return to his retirement until lie has at least played
his last card, if he does not find himself driven to
the more desperate remedy of overturning the tables.
There are some accordingly who believe, that al-
though the Jesuitical intrigues of the extreme 4pos-
tolical party have not yet been crowned with suc-
cess, we shall yet hear more of them before a dissolu-
tion of the Chamber be definitively adopted, and
before the final retreat of their Arch-apostle from
the field. By those who entertain this belief, M.
de Villele's return to Paris and to power is con-
fidently predicted. It is even said, that he will re-
linquish the hopeless idea of attempting to govern
with the men or the principles of the extreme droite,
that he will attach himself to the two Centres, and
by that means command a majority in the Chamber
of Deputies as at present constituted, convoking
them for the purpose of voting the Budget so early
as August next. Without expressing any opinion as
to the probability that such a manoeuvre may be at-
tempted, I have not the remotest doubt as to the
total and irretrievable failure with which it would
be attended; and unless it could be supposed that
the Minister who should hazard such a measure en-

tertained a belief approaching to a certainty of suc-
cess, it is not easy to see on what principle he could
justify himself in the eyes of his master, and of the
friends of Royalty, for compromising the dignity of
the Crown by making another appeal to a Chamber
already treated with so little attention or re-
spect. The announcement in yesterday's Moniteztr,
that on the anniversary ceremony of the 12th April,
the Deputies will not be received at the Tuileries
in their collective capacity, but simply as private in-
dividualq, seems to me to afford some evidence, from
its inconsistency with all former usage, that it is not
intended to call the present Chamber again together,
but that a dissolution is resolved on.

" Although the QUetidienne may now, perhaps,
be regarded as the only recognised organ of the Po-
lignac Administration, there is not, in fact, any es-
sential difference between the principles it espouses
and those of the Gazette de France. The Quoti-
dienne is more candid than his evening contempo-
rary, in acknowledging his apprehensions as to the
result of a general election. More timid than the
Gazette, it is not unnatural that he should also be
more ready to advocate those violent measures which

timidity is so apt to inspire, but which the more
dexterous satellite of M. de Villele would rather
defer, as a last, because a dangerous remedy, al-
though I fear there is little doubt that even he and

his party would not hesitate to resort to it, when
driven to the extremity of their resources. The fol-

lowing, which is taken from the Quolidienne of this
morning, may, perhaps be received as a declaration
of the views on this important subject entertained
by the more decided portion of the present Cabinet :
" What has given a character of rebellion (says the
Quotidienne) to the address of the Chamber, is, that it
has for its object to introduce a Parliamentary power into
the exercise of the sovereign authority. Every Royalist
has judged of the Address as we have ; and we are only
developing their doctrines when we require that the Sove-
reign will should remain independent of all such interven-
tion as that which the Chamber has evinced a desire to
usurp. For this reason the elections seem to us to be a
simple accident in the general march of the Government
—a serious accident undoubtedly, but not at all decisive,
while the prerogative remains entire. For, if the elections
were is prove revolutionary, it does not follow that royalty
should perish for that. What is fundamental and decisive
is, that Royalty should make its system triumph—the
system of the Bth of August; and on that bead we have
no doubt—no fear."

The following are extracts from the
_other
Papers of Sunday :

PARIP, APRIL 11.—The Journal du Commerce of
this morning has the following :—" It is again rumoured
that the dissolution will not take place. Ministers are
alarmed by the accounts they receive from the departments,
and the reports of the Prefects. It appears that they have
resolved to face the present Chamber, and even anticipate
the period of the re-assembling of the Chambers by con-
voking them for the Ist of August. The Count de Bout-
mont will leave Paris for Toulon on the 21st. It has
been deemed advisable to place his portfolio in the hands
of M. d'Haussez ; and, by thus putting the two offices of
the Ministers of War and of the Marine in close concord,
ensure greater activity in the movements necessary to hasten
and carry on the expedition.
The fleet, on its departure from Toulon for Africa, will
consist of 93 ships :-11 sail of the line, of which 4 will
be completely equipped for war, and 7 armed en flute; 21
frigates, of which 4 will have their full war complement,
and 17 en flute ; 12 sloops, 23 brigs, 12 store-ships or
transports; 6 steam-boats, and S gun-boats. To these
must be added the blockading squadron already off Al-
giers, consisting of 5 frigates, 8 brigs, 1 sloop, 2 schoon-
ers, with 10 more brigs or sloops now in the Levant, at
Alexandria or Corsica, and which will join at the moment
of the departure of the expedition, or immediately after--
thus forming a total force of 119 ships of war.
The Italian Journals announce, on the authority of
letters from Widdin, that the Grand Seignior has just
sent an extraordinary Ambassador to London on a special
mission.

The Austrian Observer announces, after intelligence
of March 10th from Constantinople, that, in consequence
of the first instalment of the indemnity to Russian .mer-
chants having been paid, the 6th article of the treaty re-
lative to Servia executed, and Giurgewo evacuated by the
Turks, the Russian army have left Adrianople, Kirklisse,
Luleßurgas, Midis, Iniada, and other places, and delivered
them up to the Porte. It further adds, that as the Turkish
Government are prepared to pay the second instalment
according to the treaty, the Russian troops are making
preparations to evacuate the whole country from the
Balkan to the sea, as far as the gulf of Bourgas, and to
withdraw into Bulgaria and Dobrudscha. Part of the
Russian squadron have sailed for Malta. Admiral Hey-
den remains with two ships of the line, one frigate, and
two brigs, in the port of Greece. Admiral Malcolm was
at Napoli in the beginning of February, with a ship of
the line, and some smaller vessels. The two French brigs,
Volage and Surprise lately arrived in Greece; the former
with 25,000 f., and the latter with 35,000 f. for the Greek
Government.

Their Neapolitan Majesties are expected at Bayonne on
the 26th instant. They travel incognito, and have re-
quested that no extraordinary preparations may be made
for their reception. They will, therefore, be received at
the frontier by the Prefect of the Department, attended
only by a detachment of the horse gendarmerie. Their
Majesties will spend two days at Bayonne.
Letters from Madrid of the Ist instant state, that Na-
varre and Guipuscoa have sent deputations to Madrid, to
lay before the King the representations of these privileged
provinces against the demand made by the Government
for their contributing to the levy of troops, which, if per-
sisted in, would be a violation of their privileges. The
King received them very graciously, and accepted instead
a pecuniary compensation, which they were authorised to
tender. It was reported, that in consequence of a letter
from the Duke of Wellington to the King, a Council had
been held on the question of acknowledging the indepen-
dence of the South American Provinces under certain con-
ditions. The Vales Consols of May were quoted at 44.,
those of September 44i; the Non-Consols at 12k. This
fall is said to be in consequence of enormous purchases
having been made by three houses of this capital, who
were again forced to sell out.

A letter of the 27th ultlirom Lisbon says, " Sir John
Campbell arrived a few days since at Lisbon, with the con-
fident expectation of being admitted into the Portuguese
army with the rank of Ma j or- General, but Don Miguel
himself refused him, declaring that lie will allow no Eng-
lishman to enter the Portuguese service till his title has
been acknowledged by the British C.ibinet. The Portu-
guese prisoners that escaped from the Castle of Lamego
are still in the province of Alta-Beira; they have had se•
veral engagements with the detachments sent in pursuit
of them, and have taken an oath not to quit the province
until they have burnt the property of those who pillaged
theirs."

The Greek Papers state, that on the 26th of January
the Russian officers gave a grand entertainment to Count
Heyden, previous to his departure fur the Baltic. Among
the company invited were Vice-Admiral de Rigny, the
Baron de Rouen, the Count de Panin, Canaris, and several
Greeks of distinct ion.

General St. Martin, who took a prominent part in the
struggles of South America for her independence, has ar-
rived in Paris from Brussels.

On the 6th inst. the Princess Gusteva of Hesse Hom-
bourg was safely delivered of a Prince.
Accounts from Brest announce the loss of nine men by
the sinking of a bout belonging to the Hgbe sloop of war,

which went down at the moment she lowered her sails Ga
reaching the ship. The accident was occasioned by im-
prudence in overloading the boat with 28 sailors. •
Fitimest AparL 10.—Five per Cents., 100 f. 10e.
sc. 10(1f. 106 f. bc. ; Four and a..half per Cents. 105 f. 60e. ; Four
per Cents., 101 f. 10e.; Three' per Cents., Stf. 84f. se. 84f. ;
Bank Stock, 1,915 f. ; Relates de Naples, 93f. 20e. 25e.; Rentes
d'Espagne, 1414% 14 14% % % 14% %; Royal Spanish Loan,
90% %; Rentee Perpetuelle d'Eepagne, 7734 78 78% % %
7834 ; Hayden Loan, 539 f. 535 L—Exchange on London—One
month, paper, tbf. 6ba. ; three months, paper, 43L 50e.—Coors
Amthentigme.

The following are extracts from the Hamburg
Reporter and other Papers of the 9th inst. It
appears that a severe storm has been experienced
in the North Sea :

COPENHAGEN, APRIL 6.
His Majesty has assigned the sum of 75,000 dollars for
the formation of a new harbour at Frederickaton, in
Jutland. On the 3d inst. a little before midnight we
had a storm like a hurricane, the wind being S.W. An
English brig was driven against the Knippel's Bridge
and almost dashed to piece,, and several other ships sus-
tained more or less injury. The bridge is so damaged as
to be impassable for carriages or horsemen.

MANOVER, APRIL 4.

The introduction of a new criminal code into this king-
dom will not take place for some time ; the intended code
has only been mentioned in the Diet, which has been in-
vited to appoint a Committee composed of Members of
both Chambers to examine it. This Committee has ac-
cordingly been appointed, and the proposed code will pro-
bably be laid before the next Assembly of the State. •

ritarrxroKT, APRIL 4.

It is said that Prince lletternich will arrive at the
castle of Johannisberg by the end of June, and remain till
the end of August. Several distinguished Statesmen will
probably visit the baths, near the Rhine, about the same
time.

The death of the Grand Duke of Baden has set the
heads of some politicians at work, and they already spread
reports of Bavarian troops entering Alarenheim to assert
the right to the succession. Though there is not at pre-
sent any thought of an actual occupation, some persons
conjecture that the Court of Bavaria will assert its claims
througk diplomatic means.

COPENHAGEN, APRIL 8.

Ship news, received from Sweden by way of Bornholm,
say that there is still much ice in the Baltic, and many
♦essels, large an I small, were seen from Bornholm, which
could not approach the island on account of the ice. It is
certain that several ships from Copenhagen, having got
within one or two miles of that island, have been obliged
to put back, as they could not get through the ice.

VIENNA, APRIL 2.

It is said that her Imperial Highness the Archduchess
Maria Theresa, eldest daughter of the Archduke Charles,
will be married to the Crown Prince of Bavaria.

BERLIN, ♦PRIL 7.

The Emperor of Russia has granted both to the mother
and to the widow of M. Gribejadow, the Ambassador,
who was murdered in Persia, a pension of 5,000 rubles
per annum, and also the sum of 30,000 rubles Banco.

lIAMMITRO, ♦PRIL 9.
BORSEN-HALLE.-The supply of Wheat continuing
large, buyers have become rather backward ; but of good
heavy Grain for exportation several large purchases have
again been made. Prices are a shade lower than last week,
our own consumers buying little or nothing, partly on ac-
count of the holidays. From the Lower Elbe we have
had some arrivals, but the holders are unable to obtain the
prices they demand. Rye and Oats are heavy. During
the last four days of March not a single cargo of Corn
passed through the Sound.

Weight. Rix dollars.
Dantzic Wheat 122 to 126 —to
Pomeranian
Anhalt. white llB to 124 118 to 125
red 122 to 128 118 to 124
Danish
llantzic Rye ll9 to 122 6O to 64
Upland 116 to 123 6O to 64
Danish 116 to 120 53 to 55
" "

Magdeburgh Barley 9B to 104 5l to 57
Anhalt 9B to 104 5l to 54
Danish 94 to 102 4O to 44
Mccklenburgh Oats 66 to 74 37 to 39
Danish 66 to 75...... 26 to 30
Po►neranian Malt to 53 to 54
Pease, yellow, Upland
Holstein Rapeseed to 160 to 167

The Funds have declined since yesterday. The rise at
Vienna, which lent an impulse here, has been followed by
a Te-action. Austrian Bank Shares have declined to

1,378. On Wednesday it was reported, that Bank Shares
had been done at Vienna at 1,490, but this report is
not confirmed. On our place Austrian Bank Shares have
been 1,430; Danish, 75 ; Anglo Russian at 109 i, and
Falconets 91. Funds left off sellers at the prices below :
n(1 of April.
Anglo-Danish Loan 3 per Cent 74
Anglo-Russian Loan 109%
Hamburg-Russian Loan lO4
Polish Bonds 133,
New Prussian 4 per Cents. (MO)
Austrian Bank Shares. 1404
Austrian Metalliques
New Austrian 4 per Cents.
Anglo Neapolitan
Falconets
Exchange upon London, at two months l3 12%
Amsterdam, at two months, 35 59400
Paris
The storm which raged here during the night from the
3d to the 4th instant, though not felt in the North Sea,
appears to have raged on the Baltic coast with even greater
violence than here. In Kiel and its neighbourhood several
houses were materially injured, and large trees are represent-
ed to have been torn up by the roots. The last letters from
Copenhagen say that there was still so much ice in the
Baltic that several vessels have been obliged to return to
that port, not being able to make good their passage
beyond Bornholm.
The Austrian Observer of the 2d inst., contains a list
of Public Securities paying an interest of 5 and 6 per
cent. which are to be paid off on the Ist November of the
present year, the amount of the Funds to be cancelled is

10,000,000 florins; the holders of the stock in question,
who do not wish to be paid off in money, will be allowed
104 fl. of a 4 per cent. Stock, in lieu of every 100 fl.
5 per cent. _.. ...

'VIENNA, APRIL 2.—Metalliques 1041; 4 per Cent.
98/ ; Bank Shares 1381.

CONSTANTINOPLE, MAUCH 10.

The only changes that have occurred in the public
offices within the last fortnight are the nomination of the
Kapidgi Baschi, Sadil Aga, to the post of Governor of
Nicopolis, with the rank of Beglerbeg ; of Mehemed Pacha,
late governor of Nicopolis, to the rank of titular Governor
of Silistris ; lastly, the bestowing of the government of
Rumelia on the Grand Vizier.

The Turkish Vice-Admiral, Tahir Paella, is preparing
to sail on board a frigate for Algiers, in order to propose
the mediation of the Sultan for the arrangement of the
difference between the Dey and France.

It is generally affirmed that Jussuf Pacha, who surren-
dered Varna, has hopes of being restored to the Sultan's
favour, and is preparing to return to Constantinople, where
his son has long been, and is restored to his rank in the
army. Among the measures lately adopted in favour of
the Catholic Armenians, is the firman sent to Angora, by
which, with the exception of the heads of a few distin-
guished families who were banished to Angora by special
orders, the other Ar menians are at liberty to return to
the capital.
The Porte is said to have already become acquainted
with the last resolutions of the Allied Powers respecting
Greece, but not to show a disposition to accede to them.

FRANKFORT, APRIL 1.

The first supply of new English tnanufactured goods
for the Easter fair arrived here yesterday, from Hamburg,
in 21 waggons. Many sellers from Saxony and Switzer-
land, with considerable quantities of goods, are already
there, and also French merchants; but those from Elher-
feld and Nuremberg are not yet arrived.—Allgemeine
Zeitung, April 6.

!ROM Tilt ELBE, MARCH 29.
We bear that the German Diet has granted to the Duke
of Brunswick a further time of three weeks, and if this
time should expire without the Duke's complying with the
decisions of the Diet, 6,000 Saxon troops are to occupy
the Duchy, or rather the dominions of his Highness.—
Nuremberg Correspondent.

The Spey packet has arrived from Jamaica
with the mail; she sailed on the 23d February.
A Message had come down from the Governor,
containing a despatch from Sir GEORGE MUR-
RAY, stating his MAJESTY considered the Bill
for granting privileges to the Jews as unneces-
sary. The Governor prorogued the-Houses Of
Legislature on the 20th. In the speech deli-
vered on that occasion his Excellency speaks as
follows :

" Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the House of
Assembly,
" I am happy to be able to relieve you from the fatigues
of this long and laborious Session.
" I have passed all such Bills as have been presented to
me, and only regret that there should have been retained
n the Slave Law a chrase not corresponding with the fiber

ral feeling manifested throughout the other prorMorp of
the Act.

" I thank you for finchlhupplies a 3 you haw, 11.ouglit it
expedient to grant.
" I trust that you will, on your return to your respec-
tive parishes, promote that harmony and good-will amongst
all classes of his Majesty's subjects, which the proceedings
of the present Session have had sa strong a tendency to
establish and confirm.

" I do now, in his Majesty's name, prorogue the Gene—
rdl Assembly to the 30th March next, and it is hereby
prorogued accordingly."

These Papers announce the arrival of Sir
JOHN KEANE at Kingston, in the Planet,
Captain BARCLAY.

SHIPPING IN'IELLIGENCE,-(THIS DAY,

FROM LLOYD'S.

DEAL, APRIL 12.—Wind W. S. W. fresh.—The Jane,
Scott, from Rotterdam to Belfast, remain with the out-
ward-bound, reported yesterday.
PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 12.—Wind N.W. to W.—Put
back his Majesty's ship North Star, for the West Indies.

FALMOUTH, Araii. 11.—Wind W.S.W. strong.—
Arrived the Lord Melville packet, from the Leeward
Islands, sailed from St. Thomas the Qd nit. ; Spe packet,
from Jamaica, sailed the 23d of February, from Crooked
Island the Ist ult. ; passed on the 2d of February, in lat.
76. 32. the Opossum packet.
_ _

LivEaroot,. APRIL 11.—Arrived the Charles Whar-
ton, York, from New Orleans; Ann, Williams, from
Salon ; Oscian, Lees, from Seville ; and Margaretta,
from Bordeaux. _

COWES, APRIL I2.—Arrived the Terranova, Kelso
I
from Bahia.

BELFAST, APRIL 10.—Arrived the Alert, Williams,
from London ; George the Fourth, Baldwin, from Messina,
and Cordelia, Lockett, from Alicant.
WELLS, APRIL 12.—A sloop, marked with Spanish
winch attached, has been brought here, supposed to belong
to the sloop run down near the Dudgeon Light a short
time ago.
YARMOUTH, APRIL 12.—The Apthorp, bound from
Amsterdam to Charleston, was assisted in here yesterday
with loss of rudder, having been on shore near the Kentish
Knock.