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LONDON,
MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 5, 1830.

THE QUARTER'S REVENUE.

The Revenue for the present Quarter will be
made up this evening. The Customs, we un-
derstand, will prove more favourable than was
anticipated. But as the accounts will not be
closed until a late hour) a considerable altera-
tion may take place ; we therefore refrain from
entering into particulars at present.

Prince LEOPOLD sails this evening from
Dover for the Continent. He is to land at
Calais—proceed to Paris in the first instance,
and then probably to Germany for a short period,
but is expected to return to this country pre-
viously to his final departure for Greece.

The Paris Papers of -Friday and Saturday,
with the Messager des Chambres, dated Sun-
day, have been received by Express. The
Gazette de France says that the Chamber of
Deputies is dissolved, though the ordinance for
its
dissolution has not yet been published. The
Moniteur contains three Royal Ordinances,
which will be found below :
(From the Moniteur of Saturday.)
The Moniteur contains several Royal Ordinances.

I. Appoints the Count de Hautpoul to be Director of
the War Department in the room of General Clouett, re-
moved to another office.
11. Appoints the Viscount de Suleau, Prefect of the
Moselle, to be Director-General of the Board of Enrolment
and Customs in the room of M. Calmon.

111. Contains changes and removals of 13 Prefects.

room

M. tie Vandceuvre passes from the Vienne to the Mo-
selle, in the room of M. Sulean —M. de St. Felix is ap-
pointed Prefect of the Vienne—AL de Foresta passes from
the Vendee to the Loiret, in the room of M. de Ricce,
who retires M. de Villeneuve passes from the Correze to
the Vendee—the Chevalier de Caunan passes from the
Landes to the Correze—M. Dufugray, Sub-Prefect of
Toulon, is nominated Prefect of the Landes—M. de Cal-
vieres passes from the Hautes-Pyren6es to the Doubs, in
the room of M. de Beaumont—M. Vernhettes passes from
the Vosges to the Hautes-Pyrenees—M. de Malartic passes
from the Drome to the Vosges—M. de Talleyrand passes
from the Nievre to the Drome—M. Seguier passes from
the Orne to the Nievre—M. de Kersaint is nominated Pre-
fect of the Orne—M. Waters passes from the Haute-Loire
to the Meuse, in the room of M. D'Arros, who retires—
M. Is Fresfon is nominated Prefect of the Haute-Loire—

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M. Angelier passes from Corsica to the Var, in the room
of M. Fumeron d'Ardeuil—M. de Choiseul, Secretary-
general of the Prefecture of the Bas Rhin, is appointed
Prefect of Corsica—M. de Baumes passes from the Lot
to the Lot et Garronne, in the room of M. Feutrier—M.
de Lantivy is nominated Prefect of the Lot—M. de Saint
Luc passes from the Creuse to the Mayenne, in the room
of M. de Lezardiere—M. de Frotte, Sub-Prefect of Cher-
bourg, is appointed Prefect of the Creuse.
The 15th inst. is said to be fixed for the departure of
the Dauphin from Paris for Toulon, accompanied by the
Minister of the Marine, Rear-Admiral Mackau, Director
of the personnel, and M. Tupinier, Director of Ports and
Stores.
(From the Messager des Chambres of Sunday.)
Yesterday, the 3d of April, the Correctional Tribunal
passed sentence in the affairs of Le Globe and National,
The sentence upon the Globe concludes as follows :
" Considering that from the vs hole of the articles incul-
pated, and particularly of the passage quoted, there re-
sults an excitation to hatred and contempt of the King's
Government, which constitutes the crime provided against
by Article 1, of the law of the 17th May, 1819, and Art.
4, of the law of 25th March, 1822.
" Considering that Dubois has acknowledged himself
the author of the two articles criminated, and besides re-
sponsible for their contents as manager of the Globe.
" Apply to the same Dubois the same articles, con-
demns him to four months' imprisonment, and a fine of
2,000 francs."
" Orders the above-mentioned shall be suppressed."
The sentence on M. Saatelet, manager of the National,
for the article stating that on the day when the Chambers
were prorogued, the 2d regiment of the Guard was or-
dered to load its arms; and secondly, that the Ministry
not depending on the French guard, had reduced the
number of regiments on duty at Paris, and increased that
of the Swiss regiments--condemns him to three months'
imprisonment and a fine of 1,000 francs. Messrs. Dubois
and Santelet were discharged from the other grounds of
accusation. The Tribunal further orders that, in one
month from the passing of the sentence, they shall insert
in their respective papers the extracts of the grounds and
the particulars of the sentence, and likewise condemns
them to the costs.
(From the Messager des Chainbres of Saturday.)
PARIS, APRIL 2.—M. Genoude, editor of the Gazette
de France, had been condemned to 15 days' imprison-
ment, a fine of 500 francs, and costs, for having accused
the Baron Mechin, at the time Prefect of Calvados, of
having ordered muskets to be fired at the people when they
asked for bread, in the famine of 1812.
Official accounts from Servia state that the oriental
plague is certainly raging at Adrianople, and that every
precaution is taken to preserve the frontiers of Servia

from contagion.
The Augsburg Gazette, of the 2Sth March, says—
" All the measures taken by the Porte show that the island
of Candia will remain united to the Turkish empire.
" England will have it so, and opposes all the objections
of France and Russia. The numerous attempts of Count

Cc1;:o d'lstiia for the emancipation of the island, which
have been the cause of so many misfortunes, have rather
injured than served the cause of its emancipation.
" England, and especially the Government of the lonian
Islands, look with the greatest distrust upon all the de-
mands of this ancient Russian statesman since he is in
Greece, because he appears by no means inclined to sacri-
fice the interests of his country to that of England."
Yesterday evening at seven o'clock the Constitutional
Banquet offered to the Deputies of the Seine took place,
By the care of the stewards the most perfect order pre-
vailed during the whole repast, which was short. No more
than 700 persons could be accommodated, for want of
The President was a man whom no efforts of
,action can transform into a Revolutionist—a man who
has given more than one proof of attachment and fidelity
to the reigning dynasty, M. Jean Jacques Rausseau, ancient
Mayor of the third arrondissement.

Letters from Marseilles say, that the Viceroy of Egypt
is making preparations at Alexandria to send an army to
make the conquest of Tripoli, while France is engaged in
the conquest of Algiers. In this case the Bey of Tunis,
whose dominions are situated between Algiers and Tripoli,
will be indirectly obliged to yield to the conditions which
may be imposed upon him. The piracy of the Barbary
States would thus be for ever destroyed—that is, if France
and Egypt retain their conquests, for it is only on this con-
dition that we can approve of the expedition to Algiers.
A letter from the Havannah, of the 13th February, an-
nounces that a conspiracy has been discovered there, the
chief instigators of which were Spanish officers, lately
returned from the unfortunate expedition to Tampico. It
is added that several persons have been arrested. but that
the greatest secrecy is observed respecting the affair.
(The Gazette de France is almost entirely taken up
with the proceedings against its Editor.)

(From the Gazette de Prance.)

PARIS, APRIL 2.—On the 14th March a Russian cou...

!ler from Paris arrived at Ancona. He is the bearer of
despatches from the Greek Government, which are said to
announce the election of Prince I eopold to the throne of
Greece, and his acceptance of it.

(From the Aviso.)
The Royal Tribunal has to-day pa•sed sentence in the
affair relative to the Association of Brittany.
Considering that the Fourth Article of the Law of
20th March, 1822, speaking of the King's Government,
can be understood only of the Ministers taken collectively
and governing in the name of the King ;
Considering that to ascribe to the Ministers the inten-
tion to modify or to replace the Charter and the laws
by ordinances is evidently exciting contempt and hatred
of the King's Government, a crime provided. for by the

laws ;
The Court has confirmed the sentence oC the First
fudges, which condemns the managers of the Courrier
Francais and the Journal du Commerce.

TRIESTE, MARCH 18 —We learn that the Montene-
grins, an Albanian tribe accustomed to pillage, have just
committed great excesses on the frontiers of Dalmatia, so
that the Government of the province of Zara have been
obliged to send some battalions against them.
Several vessels that have arrived from Alexandria con-
firm the continuation of the armaments made by the Pacha
of Egypt, the object of which excites the more curiosity,
as it is generally known that Mahommed Ali will not take
any part in the French expedition against Algiers.
(From the Messager des Chambres.)
TOULON, Ma RCII 27.—(Private Correspondence.)—l
learn by mercantile letters that the English have assembled
at Malta seven ships of the line, one of them a three-
decker, and several frigates and brigs ; and that at Ourbae
their fleet is composed of 17 sail, 11 of which are ships of
the line, from 74, to 80 guns. This assemblage of forces,
almost at the same point, gives reason to suppose that Eng-
, lend has some secret enterprise in view.

The Circe frigate having been carried by the current
rather too near to the coast was fired upon by the fortifi-
cations of Algiers. However, a land breeze having en-
abled it to tack, the enemy's guns did not reach it, be-
cause it immediately got out of the danger.
Three regiments of cavalry—namely, one of Dragoons,
one of Guards, and one of Chasseurs, will embark at
Toulon. _ _

The report of the departure of M. de Martignac for
England is renewed. It is not said that he is charged
with any mission. It was in the diplomatic line that M.
de Martignac made his appearance in 1799. At that
period he accompanied Sieyes in his embassy to Berlin.-
It is known, that in 1823, M. de Villele sent him with the
invading army of Spain as a diplomatic character.
It was reported at Strasburg on the 29th ult. that an
estafette had arrived in the morning of, that day, an-
nouncing the death of his Serene Highness the Grand
Duke of Baden, from apoplexy. The Gazette de Carls-
ruhc, which arrived at Strasburg in the evening, merely
states that the Duke was indisposed, and that he had be-.
tvorse during the previous might. l'ha arrival:a tie.
next ,courier, which will no doubt bring positive intelti:
Bence on the subject, is anxiously looke;for.
We read in the Lisbon Gazette that the ship Orestes
having been despatched to Mozimbique, the Captain pur-
sued a different course, and repaired to Rio de Janeiro,
where he offered to surrender his ship to the Emperor of
Brazil. Don Pedro, however, refused to accept her ; not
wishing to furnish thereby a fresh subject of altercation
with his brother Don Miguel. The Captain was here-
upon ordered to sail back to Lisbon. "If I return," said
he, in answer to this injunction, " I shall be hanged for
coming here; I therefore prefer taking refuge with my
vessel in some port of the new American Republic."-
11 The Emperor, upon this reply, dismissed the Captain,
sent fur the other officers of the ship, and commanded
them to sail forthwith for Lisbon : they have just arrived
in the Orestes.
We bear that all the infantry of the line destined for Al-
giers are to be armed with pikes, 8,000 of which are
already manufiictured. A great number of chevaux de
frise are likewise to be embarked, which will be thrown
out at the moment of landing, in order to keep off the
enemy's cavalry.
It is reported that the wife of a Colonel, at the news of
her husband's regiment having been ordered to go to Al-
giers, went weeping to the Minister of War, and solicited
the recall of the order. " What !" exclaimed she, " you
wish to expose in such an expedition the life of a --,
the only heir of an illustrious name ?" The Minister ac-
knowledged the justice of her objection, and the regiment
is not to go to Algiers, to the great disappointment of all
the officers.-Journal du Commerce.
A merchant at Marseilles is said to have formed the
project of fitting up in one of his vessels cabins, rooms,
and a kitchen, for the purpose of turning it into a fur-
nished hotel and floating restaurant. This vessel will sail
towards Algiers with the expedition, and will keep one
league from the coast, in order to witness the landing of
the troops, and the bombardment. Many persons will
take this opportunity of being spectators of the destruction
of that nest of pirates.
The Provincial Journals contain daily accounts of the
flattering reception given to such Members of the Cham-
ber of Deputies, returning to their homes in consequence
of the prorogation, as voted in favour of the Address. On
Sunday, M. Benjamin Morel was received at Dunkirk with
a serenade from the band of the National Guard.
FRENCH FUNDS.-PARIS, APRIL 3, Three, P.m.-Five per
Cents., 106 L 40c. 45c. 40c. 35c. 40c. ; Three per Cents., 84C sc.
10c. 81f. 83f. 94c.; Bank Stock, 1,9051 ; Rentes de Naples, 93f. 92f.
90c. 80c. ; Rentes d'Espagne, 1313.4 ; Royal Spanish Loan, 91f.
90% ; Rentes Perpetuelle d'Espagne, 75•44 !4 78 77% 78;
Haytian Loan, 555 f. 552 f. 50c.-Exchange on London-One
month, 25f. 65c. ; three months, 25f. 50c.
FRENCH FUNDS.-PARIS, APRIL 2.-Five per Cents., 106 f. 40c.
35c.; Four per Cents., 105 f. 60c.; Three per Cents., 8411. 25c.
20c. ; Bank Stock, 1,9151. ; Rentes de Naplai 93f. 3!,c. 30c. 20c. ;
Rentes d'Espagne, 13 ; Royal Spanish Lhari, 91 9114 I 4 ; Rente
Perpetuelle d'Espagne, 7:0,4 % %A.% 14; Haytian Loan,
550 f. 555 E-Exchange on.- Londort.-One month, paper, 25f.
65c. ; three months, paper, 25f. 50c.

German, Brussels, and Lisbon Papers have
been received this morning, from which the
following are extracts:—

BANKS OF THE NEVA, MARCH 6 :—The rumour of
a Congress of Kings and Ministers, to be held in the
spring, either at Dresden or at Berlin, these two towns
being the most central of Europe, is a subject of genes al
conversation in our political circles. Some of the most
distinguished Russian Naval Officers have been sent to
several points of the shore of the Black Sea, to improve
our maritime establishment, and put them on a respectable
footing. Schools, composed of Greeks and Italians, are
to he founded, with a view to propagate the taste of the
nautical sciences, in those quarters."

LISBON, I%IARCH 15.
By letters from Rio de "Janeiro, brought by the English
frigate the heron, which left that port seven days later
than the last English packet, we learn that the Marquis
Bar bacena had again quitted the office of Minister of Finance,
and that M. Gilman had returned to it.
The Board of Health has published an edict for the re-
gulation of the vessels which will go this year to the fishing
off the coast (..f Larache. (The Lisbon Gazettes, from the
15th to 27th March, inclusive, contain no domestic news,
excepto fth
and
the day tore
presentations
aatri
omnys to his Majesty, &c.):
army,
some lists of voIun-
taryBRUSSRLS, APRIL 1.
His Excellency Baron Von Zuylen Van Nyvilt, his
t y contributions,rders
Majesty's Ambassador to the Porte, has on his return
from Constantinople presented to. the Royal -Cabinet of
Medals, at the Hague, various coins and engraved stones.

Among them are 63 eylindeis of Persepolis, 100 engravid
stones cf Persia, 7 ditto of the Jassanedes, 84 Greek, &c.

THE HAGUE, MARCH 31 •

In the sitting of the Second Chamber to-day the
amended chapters of the code of proceedings in the Cri-
minal Courts were adopted almost unanimously, without
any debate.
VIENNA, Ithacti 23 AND 24.—Metalliques, 1031 ;
Four per Cents. 98i ; Bank Shares, 1,34.1.

We have been favoured with a copy of a
letter, addressed by Dr. BURROWS to Sir E.
NALFORD, •" touching some points of the evi-
dence and observations of Counsel on a Com-
mission of Lunacy on Mr. EDWARD DAVIES,"
which we regret he should have felt it necessary
to write,—the Doctor, however, must recollect
it is he who thrusts himself—not we, who bring
him before the public.

On the subject of Dr. BURROWS' letter, we
are influenced by no feeling .but public duty,
and know no party but the public—we have no
personal knowledge of, or ill feeling towards Dr.
BURROWS, and are willing to grant all he can
fairly require, and in that spirit are ready to ad-
mit that he did not violate the letter of the law,
by personally signing the certificate that con-
signed Mr. DAVIES to " the retreat" at Clapham.
Mr. DAVIES, however, according to Dr.
BURROWS' account, is still insane, but on that
point the Doctor shall speak for himself.—" The
event," *says the Doctor, has " falsified the verdict.
" It appears that Mr. DAVIES has never since
" that verdict was pronounced evinced a sound
" mind, nor been capable of managing himself
" and his affairs, and as the climax of this ex-
" traordinary case, he note acknowledges that
" he was and still is insane, and justifies those
" who have affirmedit ; and has voluntarily placed
" himself under the care of two of the physicians
" who, on the inquiry, gave the strongest testi-
" mony of his existing insanity !!" After this,
who can doubt that Mr. DAVIES must be a most
sane and sensible lunatic—a madman after a mad
doctor's own heart ; since being still insane, he
is capable not only of acknowledging his pre-
vious insanity, but justifying those who af-
firmed it! ! To re•quote Dr. BURROWS,
this is indeed a " climax of this extraordinary
case !" By way of juxta-position, we shall now
quote the following note appended to a very able
article on insanity in the last number of the
Quarterly Review :
_ .

,‘ When the verdict of the Jury restored Mr. Davies
to his liberty, he appointed four of his friends to take
upon themselves the temporary management of his affairs,
stipulating that the removal of his mother from his shop
in Philpot-lane should be the first act they performed.
She, accordingly left his house, and he, for some time,
resumed the uncontrolled direction of his business ; but,
after the lapse of a few weeks, finding himself a great
object of curiosity, from the notoriety which his case had
unfortunately obtained for him, he became desirous of
withdrawing from the gaze of the town, and resolved to
dispose of his shop. Of this his mother has become the
purchaser, and he has made an advantageous bargain with
her. He is now retired from trade, and is, for aught we
know, at this moment Squire Davies, of Trefeen, Mont-
gomeryshire—an estate which his mother has given up to
him, as part of the purchase of his shop and trade. The
various stories that have been so industriously circulated in
the newspapers of his relapse into what is still perversely
called his furrier state of insanity, are idle and un-
founded; though it was quite ludicrous to observe the
avidity with which the news was swallowed by all those
wbo had committed themselves on the subject, and to
whose previously expressed opinions such a circumstance
would have been a sort of corroboration."
_ _

From the tone that prevails throughout his letter
it. would appear that Dr. BURROWS considers
every physician who " adopts the treatment of
insanity as his department" is a more sacred
person than the sovereign, and of right entitled

to be placed above all controul, or even observa-
tion or remark ; accordingly, he not only com-
plains of being summoned before the Metropoli-
tan Commissioners (who, we are glad to learn,
are Fo alive to their duties, and disposed to exert

the powers they possess, however inefficient, for
the public benefit) but he also complains of the
Press, like many others who expose themselves

to remark, of his examination by Mr. BROUGHAM,
as a witness of " the extraordinary interest the
public takes in anything that pertains to the in-
sane,"—an interest that we can assure him is
not likely to decline ; and that "it is common
now to reason upon insanity, and criticise the
conduct ofthose who profess its medical treat-
ment."

An extreme sensitiveness and dread of public

nvestigation or remark seldom argues much in

favour of any party or any cause, an honest cause,
and honest men, will rather court than shrink
from inquiry, and proudly exclaim
" Let the gall'd jade wince, our withers are unwrung."
It is not difficult, however, to imagine that a
man who has passed his life among those charnel
houses for the living—lunatic receptacles, and
reigned despotic over their wretched inmates—
the public eye on various pretexts carefully
law—complaints stifled—
redr excluded—irise stifled—
redress,
hope, in most cases, shut
out, should entertain those sensitive feel-
ings which we cannot but pity while our duty
compels us to expose and condemn, since the
fault perhaps lies more with the law that has
permitted the SYSTEM, than the men who have
turned it to their own account.
Dr. BURROWS says, " an opinion is said to
" obtain, and that in a high legal quarter, that
" the treatment of insanity ought not to be ex•
" elusively confined to certain physicians, but
" be made an object of general study and prac-
" Lice."`' We rejoice to learn that an opinion is
entertained in the high quarter alluded to, so
consonant with what we know to be the public
feeling, and cannot doubt but the law and the
practice regarding lunatics will shortly be altered
and revised, NOT for the benefit of the doctors,
but of the insane, and the security of the sane
portion of the public. There is no good rea-
son why the treatment of insanity should be
confined to a certain set of physicians, any more
than that the treatment of cholera should be con-
fined to a certain other set of physicians, nor
would it ever have been so, had not some gen-
tlemen who obtained diplomas, condescended to
add, or perhaps to speak more correctly, to sink
their professional character to the level of what
Dr. BURROWS admits to be a more rofitable
trade, keeping a receptacle, which the SOLICI-
TOR-GENERAL has most truly said, " is not a
place for a physician to keep ; he ought not to
keep it."

We are told in the letter, that " so long as

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insanity is considered as a stigma on a family,
" that FO long the treatment of it will constitute
" a distinct branch in the healing art." We
take leave to deny, that insanity is a greater
stigma than any other disease to which we are
subjected by Providence, or so considered by
any man of common sense,—but so long as the
doctors can contrive to represent it as a stigma,
and are permitted to mystify the treatment of the
insane—so long as a man who is not consulted
as a general physician can indemnify himself for
the want of such practice by keeping a recep-
tacle, which the higher order of the medical
profession will not condescend to do—so long
as such men are permitted to fill the double and
incompatible office, and are ever ready to receive
and retain a patient, often perhaps far more for
the benefit of other parties and himself, than the
party received—so long the treatment of insanity
may remain what Dr. BURROWS has been
pleased to term " a distinct branch of the heal-
" ing art,"—but no longer.
If the nature of insanity be, as Dr. BUR..
ROWS observes, " little known," the fault must
rest with the mad doctors ; they have had the
field to themselves long enough, and cannot on
that score ground a claim to a further mono-
poly, or set up a vested interest in the
insane. Indeed, after what has been proved
before the Parliamentary Committees, to have
been the medical treatment of insanity in our
lunatic hospitals and receptacles (from the
minutes of which we not long since made some
extracts), it is idle and insulting to speak of the
medical treatment of insanity ; and the moral
treatment, we regret to add, has been clearly
proved in indisputable evidence, before the same
Committee, to be still worse.

We have no disposition to arraign the con-
duct of the Retreat at Clapham, which we dare
say is as well conducted as most, and better than
many similar establishments ; neither are we in-
clined to dispute the returns made by Dr. BUR-
ROWS to Mr. LowmfAm, the Secretary of
Lunatics ; at the same time, speaking generally,
we have very little respect for returns vamped up
by receptacle-keepers after so long a period, on
such a subject ; and we regret the necessity of
their being called for, considering that under
better regulations returns far more ample, clear,
and distinct, and on which perfect reliance might
be placed, might always be ready to lay before
the Government at any moment they were called

Dr. BURROWS, after lamenting what he terms
" the popular prejudice," says, " for this state
" of things I fear there is no remedy but a total
" change of public opinion,"—if such be the
fact the case is desperate,—for we will venture
to predict that no change in public opinion, such
as Dr. BURROWS would desire, can or will take
place until the laws respecting lunatics and their
treatment are effectually altered and reformed.—
We have been pained to observe, after the with-
drawal of Mr. M. A. TAYLOR'S Bill (which
promised a partial amendment in the law), that
two Commissions of Lunacy have been directed
to Commissioners, instead of a Judge at nisi
Arius, and held in some obscure pot-house,—
we presume, however, the Commissions were
issued, though not executed, before Mr. A,
TAYLOR 'Withdrew his Bill. -

New York Papers to the 9th ult. have been
received. They contain no news of the slightest

,nterest.

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE 0' CL 0 CK.

Quebec Papers to the 28th of February, and Montreal
to the 2d of March, have been received at the North and
South American Coffee-house. Sir James Kemp sent a
Message to the House of Assembly, stating that the Re-
ceiver-General of the Province had constructed at his own
expence a fire-proof vault for the safety of the public
money, and that it would be reasonable to reimburse him
for the expences, which amounted to 2271. 6s. 6d.
The Montreal Papers (from Halifax of the sth of Feb.)
state, that it will be seen by a despatch from Sir George
Murray that he is prepared to advise his Majesty to com-
mute the demand for quit rents in the province of New
Brunswick, fur a permanent grant of 1,500/.
Accounts from Quebec state, that the Committee of
the Lower House, to whom was referred his Excellency's
Message with regard to the new Custom-house at Quebec,
have reported favourably, and appropriated 6,0001. for
the purpose.
QUEBEC. FEB. 20.—The House of Assembly went up
to the Castle with their address to his Majesty, founded on
the resolutions lately published against the Militia Ordi-
nances. His Excellency was pleased to answer as follows :
" I shall not fail to transm►t your petition to the King,
for the purpose of being laid at the foot of the Throne. I
must, however, observe on the present occasion, that his
Majesty's Courts of Justice in this province having deter-
mined that the ordinances in question are laws in force, my
duty necessarily requires me to be governed by such judi-
cial decision until a new Act shall be passed by the Pro-
vincial Parliament for the regulation of the militia, a mea-
sure which I sincerely hope will be effected in the course
of the present Session."
On return to the House his Excellency's answer to the
address having been lead, Mr. Neilson gave notice that he
would on an early day move the Hotise to consider the
same.—House adjourned to four o'clock.
Accounts from Madrid, March 24, state, that the Go-
vernment have received the importations and exportations
at Havannah, for the year 1829, they amount to
24,262,502 piastres; and in 1828, they were 25,009,881
piastres ; the accounts from the interior of Spain are very
unfavourable, the wine is almost destroyed in Andalusia
by the late frost.