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WITH WHICH
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LONDON
MONDAY EVENING, MAY 7, 1838.

It is high time that the Church-rate Abolition
Society, whiCh is to hold a Meeting at the London
Tavern to-morrow, should bestir themselves. Unless
the Dissenters mean at once to lie down and suffer the
Churchmen to trad on them, or patiently hold open
their ?sockets to the bird-limed fingers of the Clergy,
they nius,: now speak out boldly.
Whatever may be the will of the Ministers, and we
have never suspected them of being indisposed to the
Dissenters, it is p.LnfectlY clear that they have tidt the
power to relieve thenip The House of Lords, and the
large minority of the nous.? of Commons, are, in truth,
the masters of the Government; and they will not allow the
Ministers, as Sir ROBERT PE,7I, stated at the dinner
at the Goldsmiths' Hall, to do a sL:gie thing which
they dislike. That such a situation is honourable to
the Ministry we will not aver ; but it is clear that,
constituted as the House of Lords, and composed as
the House of Commons is, the Ministeis cannot help
themselves, and cannot help the Dissenters.
The majority of the House of Lords is made up of
Bishops and tit sir peculiar friends ; and the minority
of the Commons, if not the mere representatives of the
clergy, are bound to the Church body and soul. Now
the clergy, who thus .command the majority in one
House, and the large roinority in the other, are one
and all decidedly opposed to every measure for the re-
lief of the Dissenters. Sir Ite
IBERT INGLIs is their
elected champion ; he expresses t;te
concentrated es-
sence of their opinions, and he declares' that the Church-
rates, though levied at the discretion of Churchwardens,
and complained of chiefly in towns where they are
paid out of men's daily earnings or daily profits, are a
tax on property subject to which the Dissenters have
acquired their estates. He looks on Church-rates,
therefore, and all the Clergy look on them, as the pro-
perty of the Church, and he insinuates, what the
Herald boldly asserts, that the Dissenters are dishonest
men, and seek to commit robbery. The Church-
men, on the one side, cry robbery, and the Dissenters
on the other cry plunder,. and the Churchmen can-
not now give up their prey without tacitly admitting
that they are depredators, and that they have—a com-
mon trick of swindlers—raised a great outcry against
other men in order to conceal their own wrong-
doing. As they have the power, therefore, the
Dissenters cannot rationally indulge the smallest hope
of relief, unless they can raise up a strong public
opinion in their favour. The abuse of the Tory prints
should stimulate their zeal. " Clamorous Dissenters,"
" Political Dissenters," " despoilers of the Church" are
amonJst the mildest epithets applied to them, and, if
they do not now exert themselves, they will not only
have an unjust burden fixed on them for ever, but they
will acknowledge by a patient submission to that con-
tuoiely which is heaped on pickpockets, that they have
unjustly. wished to take the property of their neighbours.

There great inconsistency in the arguments of
their antagelibts. The Dissenters ask to be relieved
from an impose to which they conscientiously object.
" No," say the ';"ories, " it does not fall on you alone ;
it falls on all the la Tided property of the kingdom."
" Exonerate our prorrtY" reply the Dissenters, " and
levy the rates exclusively on property held by Church-
men." " Not so," say di,' Churchmen, " for that
would be a bounty on dissent, and the true Church
would be deserted." Whether lamb drank at the
stream above or below the wolf, ti.'e rapacious beast
considered that the mild innocent trouble..l the water, and
in like manner, the Dissenters must pay both to insure to
the Church their own contributions, and to keep L'illurch"
men willing to pay. Sometimes the Dissenters are re-
proached with the smallness of the rate ; but the less
it is in amount the more easily might it be spared, and
the less is the esteem in which, according to the ad•
vocates of the rate, the Church is held by its own
congregations, if they would desert it to be relieved of
the rate.

The Church is described in all the Tory publica-
tions of the day as the greatest blessing which the
land enjoys. Its very existence is said to be a master
stroke of •policy. But according to the argument by
which the Dissenters exclusively must not be re-
lieved from Church-rates, this invaluable blessing
—this sublime essence of human wisdom—is worth
about three-pence in the pound of the property
of the country. At the same time the Church
which, in fact, is estimated so cheaply, commands the
lip attachment (may we call it hypocritical ?) of our
Statesmen of all parties. They absolutely overflow
with expressions of faithful and devoted love. Every
thing- else, including what is honestly due to the people,
is sacrificed to the necessity of preserving the Church ;
and the Clergy being thus continually flattered by Par-
liamentary orators, are naturally arrogant and rapa-
cious. Such being their dispositions; and their power,in
consequence of the submission of Statesmen of all parties,
being overwhelming in the Senate, the Dissenters can
~,ply obtain redress by directing public opinion against
the Church. They have hitherto treated it with too much
respect ; ir. stands forth now as their avowed oppressor,
and must he resisted. It is consistent, we are aware,
with Christian precepts to give the coat to him who
has taken the Dissenter's cloak ; but it is not what
the Church does; and the Dissenters should in their
case rather follow its example than its precepts.

The Glasgow Argus, the statements in which arc
copied by the Spectator, gives the following as the
average prices of wheat during the last five years :-
1833 April
October
1834 April
October
05 April
October
1836 )cpril
0, 'ober
1837 Aprt
Octobc,"
1838 April

‘• The figures show," says the Spectator, " that the im-
provements in agriculture have not, as yet, counteracted the
effects of deficient havests and increased demand."
Since 1833 there can, sve presume, be no doubt that
Population arid commerce have on the whole increased,
and that the business of the country has increased.
Looking, however, to the destruction of bank paper in
in the United States since 1833, and to the ,conduct
of the Bank of England in limitina its issues, there
may be some doubts, we apprehend, whether the cur-
vency be as abundant now as it was in 1833, 1834,

1835, and in the beginning of 1836. But we all know
that corn and currency have a close relation to each
other, and that we cannot tell what we really give for-
a quarter of corn, unless we also know the precise
value of a 5/. note. It may be, then, that 575. 10d.
the average price of wheat in the last mouth, is equal
to SOs. in 1835, or to 90s. at the time of passing the
last Corn-law. Our own impression is, that the price
of wheat already verges to !he famine height, and that
the complaints we hear of want of employment, for
money, arise from its being impossible with our present
prices of corn, and the present prices of other goods, to
manufacture to advantage. Hence the general slack-
ness of trade ; the dulness of enterprise ; and a want
of means to invest capital with a profit.

In the Number of the " London and Vv-estminster
Review," published last week, there is a very sensible
business-like article on the important question of Post-
office Reform, suggested by Mr. ROWLAND HILL's
pamphlets, and the evidence taken before the Select
Committee of the House of Commons on postage.
The Reviewer does not overlay the question with
abstruse or abstract reasoning ; he does not attempt to
put the arguments employed in favour of a reduction
of the present rate of postage in a new form ; but he
does what we like much better—he gives us the
pith of all the evidence which has been taken since
the Hon. Member for Greenock first declared himself
the uncompromising opponent of all abuses in the
Post-office Establishment. Of the pernicious effects
of the present exorbitant rate of postage, there appears
to be a general, settled conviction, among all persons
who have paid the least regard to the subject. The
merchant exclaims against it as ruinous to trade—the
divine as a check upon the virtuous intercourse of
families—as fatal to the morality of the youthfu;
and the inexperienced, whom it often deprives of the
kind admonition of parents, the advice of virtuous
friends, and the virtue-inspiring solace of fraternal
commiseration and endearment. As the latter view
of the question cannot be regarded as the least im-
portant by a Christian community, we shall quote an
extract from the letter of a respectable clergyman, com-
mented upon by the Reviewer by way of illustration :
" One of the best securities for good conduct, where young
people have been well brought up, is the preservation of home
feelings in all their freshness, and the nurturing and cherish-
ing of all the pure and wholesome influences that belong to
the family relations. Give me a girl who left the parent's
roof pure, and as long as she writes freely to her mother, I
shall searcely fear for her virtue. Give me a youth who finds
a pleasure in devoting a spare half-hour in the evening to the
sister whom he has left behind him, and though he be a hun-
dred raffles off, there is a chain upon him, which, if it does not
hold him back from evil, will check him in the pursuit of it.
Now, when one considers the field to which these observations
refer, the immense scale upon which the enormous tax upon
letters is working mischief, in separating the nearest friends,
and insulating, during the most critical period of life, those
who want every help to strengthen them against temptation,
I really feel that the economical part of the question is quite
superseded by the moral part ; and Gun if the million and a
half of revenue were sacrificed, the gain would be immense.
Nobody hates more than I do the common outcry against tax-
ation. As a nation, we do not pay dearly for our social com-
forts and blessings • on the contrary, they would be cheaply
purchased if we had much more to pay for them. But it is
unwise, nay, I must say it is unchristian, for a Legislature to
say to a whole people, ' You .shall speak to your friends, or
hear from them, only through the state-trumpet,' and at the
same time to take for every message it conveys, a sum im-
mensely greater than the cost of transmission."
To show that the opinions so beautifully expressed
in this extract are not idle assumptions of a questionable
fact, we take the following from the evidence of a
Manchester manufacturer :
" Being short of labour some time since, we imported (the
first experiment of the kind) a number of labourers from Bled-
low, Bucks. One of them naturally and properly wrote to his
father, announcing his arrival and comfortable establishment.
His father replied that he was happy to hear of his well doing
but that his letter had cost a shilling, and that he must
aware that this was a sum he could not pay twice. To a man
earning 6s. or 7s. weekly the present rate of postage is pro-
hibitory, and also cruel, because, but for Government
meddling, it seems that the poor —that is, the great bulk of
the population—might enjoy the pleasure, convenience, and
consolation of communicating with absent relatives, as readily
as the rich now do."

Several other merchants and manufacturers gave si-
milar testimony with respect to the poor people in their
employment. The postage of a single letter from hi 6
dearest friend would cost a working man more, per-
haps, than a dav's wages, and that he was in most
cases quite unable to afford. A moment's reflection
must convince any person of the baneful effect of this
compulsory estrangement from parents and relatives
upon the morality, and consequently upon the happi-
ness, of the lower classes. _ .

No tax could operate more injuriously upon busi-
ness than a high rate of postage, and therefore we are
not surprised to find the whole commercial world united
in favour of a large reduction of the duty. Mr. T.
LAMIE MURRAY, the enterprising founder of the
New National Loan Fund and Life Insurance Society,
assured the Committee that so convinced was he of the
injurious effect to trade and general intercourse by
letter, of the present rate of postage, that if he had to
farm the Post-office revenue at a cost of a half a million
more than its present net receipts, the very first step
he ‘7001.1 take would be to establish an universal penny
rate. To show the general impression of commercial men
with regard to the expense of postage, Mr. DILLON, of
the House of Morrison and Company, read to the
Committee the following extracts from letters which
lie had himself received in the way of business, in the
course of a few months :--
" The first is a letter, dated Shrewsbury, 27th May, 1837 :
Be good enough to pass the above draft for 201. to my
credit, and let some one call at —, St, Paul's Church-yard,
to acknowledge the receipt : our object is to save the post-
age.' The second is a letter dated St Austell, 31st Dec.,
1837 : Will you be kind enough to caase the order on the
other side to be delivered to —, Cheapside : the amount
would not be worth a postage to them.' The third is Ton-
bridge, 3d July, 1837, with a cheque Please indorse the
cheque,' intending this as a receipt, to save the necessity of
an acknowledgment.' The fourth is a letter dated Cambridge,
Ist June, 1837. relative to a bill sent for acceptance,
1481. 13s. 9d. The acceptor adds, I had a parcel from you
yesterday ; why not save me postage ?' The fifth is a letter
dated Marylebone, Ist June, 1837: Mr. E. M. requests
me to say that you may draw on him, to be accepted by me by
procuration of Mr. M. in order to save the expense and trouble
of sending the bill to ---.' The sixth is a letter dated
Disc., 2d June, 1837—' When you send to me have the good-
ness to send me an account of Cr. goods, 9/ 94. 3d., as I
cannot make it correct.' The seventh is dated Belfast, 16th
June, 1837—` Annexed we hand you a bank order for 232/.
10s. to settle as above. You will please retire our bill to you,
due on the 20th, and please lay it aside until an opportunity
offers of returning it free of postage.' The next is dated Jer-
sey, 12th June, 1837—' The enclosed 301. you will please
get accepted immediately, and placed to the credit of our ac-
count. In sending the acknowledgement please include ow
last invoice ; as also our statement of account, all on a single
sheet of paper, to save double postage.' The last I shall ad-
duce is dated Liverpool, Ist Feb., 1837—` If you can forward
me an acknowledgment free, well; if not, do not put me to
expence, as I have no eleven-pence; to spare for the dead sca
of the Exchequer.' "

The same gentleman illustrates, by the following sim-
ple but striking example, the mischievous effect of a
high rate of postage as regards the commerce between
the great capitals of England and Scotland :
" A case occurs to me which will show the oppressive nature
of the postage between London and Edinburgh ; for example,
I have a bill here upon Edinburgh for 251., and if that were
our only transaction, or if it were the transaction of a small
tradesman, having no other, he must send that bill to a banker
1;4 Edinburgh, which would be a double postage ; he would
receive another bill upon London in exchange, which would
he another double postage, and he is bound, by the course of
business, to send a letter of advice ; that would be five
postages of Is. 11d. each, incurred upon a two-months' bill
of 251. In all probability there would be a sixth postage, in
acknowledgment to the banker. This amounts to more upon
a two months' bill of 25/. than the discount of the bill for
the t'rne."

As we propose returning to this subject we pur-
posely avoid all reference to the systems of smuggling
so universally adopted by men in business, to avoid an
expense which the profits of their trade will not suffer
them to incur. Before we had looked into the mass
of evidence published by the Committee, we had not
the remotest conception of the illimitable extent to
which smuggling prevails, even among our most re-
spectabiE merchants, publishers, brokers, manu-

fac:tirers, and traders of every class. The per-
sons engaged in this practice of evading the
law, and even those who are instrumental in the
hands of °diets for conducting its evasion, are
not ashamed of it themselves, nor does it cast the
slightest stain upon their moral character. The
Reviewer, however, looking with the eye of a States-
man to its prevalence, thus comments upon it :
" However the universality of the practice and the badness
of existing laws may excuse it, our Legislators and Governors
should bear it mina that this vice, for the existence of which
the supporters of the bad laws make themselves responsible,
bears the aspect each of them fraught with measureless evil—
it is a universal contemning of authority—it is a habitual vio-
lation of law, and it is an education in fraud which spreads
like a leprosy through every rank and to every member of the
community."
In the main we approve of the views of the
Reviewer with respect to the efficacy of Mr

ROWLAND HILL'S plan ; but we do not go so
far as to contend " that no reduction short
of a penny postage" will carry out the principle
of that plan, so as to be crowned with complete suc-
cess. A two-penny, or even a three-penny postage
not payable in advance, would as far put an end to
smuggling as if the general rate was fixed at a penny.
Suppose the rates of postage fixed during the reign of
CHARLES the Second were re-established? They
are as follows

Miles.
Letter not exceeding 1 sheet, to or from any place
not exceeding
---- 2 sheets
1 sheet
2 sheets
1 sheet from London to Berwick ... 3d.
• from London to Dublin ... 6d.

When these rates were established, there were no
Macadamized roads—no steamers—no railway trains
travelling at the rate of from twenty so thirty miles
an hour. Neither were there such numbers of letters
as to make the farming of the Post-office a lucrative
speculation. We grant that money has increased since
then ; but when we look to the improvements in roads,
in conveyances, in general intelligence, and in our
commercial relations at home and abroad, we are
astonished at the disproportion between the past and
the present rates of postage. It is impossible that a
large reduction can be much longer refused ; for no
plea about hazarding a portion of the Revenue can be
presumed equally cogent with Ministers as a regard for
the moral feelings of a whole nation. If all we ask can-
not be at once conceded without great danger, we will
thankfully accept a part. If we cannot have a penny
postage, we will acknowledge with gratitude the kind
intentions of the Ministry in reducing the rate to two-
pence, or even three-pence.

Dr. CHALMERS has undertaken to demonstrate,
on those common and universal principles of human
nature which are the foundations of all exchange, that
free exchange, which all modern experience has
proved to be the only exchange which is or can be
mutually beneficial in supplying society with food and
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Doctor, the people do not want our instruction ; they do
not appreciate it; they will not buy it ; they have no taste
for it. The producers of the commodity, or those who
have it stored up for sale, are the persons who loudly
assert that there is no effective demand for it ; and,
therefore, they call on the Government to pay them for
supplying it to the people. The buyers are not
allowed to judge of their own wants, but the sellers in-
sist on judging for them. This principle is common
to those zealous persons who endeavour to make the
people consume religious instruction, (to preserve the
economic language in which Dr. CttALmEtts dis-
cusses Christianity), by voluntarily building and
endowing Churches, or who supplicate rich men
for the means, and to those who, like Dr. CHA L-
NIERS, insist on the State taxing the whole na-
tion, to pay for the religious instruction which
the people will not freely and voluntarily buy. So ex-
pressed and explained, the voluntaryism ab extra, as
distinguished from the voluntaryism ab infra, on which
Dr. CHALMERS expatiated on Tuesday for about
three quarters of an hour, was justly described as co.
incident with a compulsory endowment by the State.
Both proceed on the pr:neiple in common, that the
consumers are not capable of judging for themselves,
and are unwilling to buy religious instruction ; and
the one begs a bounty from benevolence to encou-
rage a supply, and the other boldly insists on
the State providing it. The great difference betwixt
the two is, that the consumers may reject or cast aside
with disdain that which benevolence offers ; but they
must pay for that which is supplied by the State,
though they may see by the marks, and know by ex-
per:ence, that it is Brummagem ware. Both, however,
proceed on the meddling principle, which was formerly
the foundation of all bounties, and restrictions on par-
ticular branches of commerce, and which denied
to individuals the right of private judgments in the dis-
posal and employment of their labour and capital. As
the meddling system has been partially superseded in
commerce with great advantage by that free trade
system which Dr. CHALMERS admires, it ought to be
inferred that the meddling system in supplying reli-
gious instruction is equally as injurious as in supplying
corn. The priesthood, however, like the landlords,
over-estimate the value of their produce, and neither
will rely on the unfettered judgment of their customers
to give them an adequate price for their commodities.
An Edinburgh paper informs us that a great
meeting took place at that city on -Tuesday to petition
Parliament for endowment ; and while Dr. CHALMERS
is stirring up the population here to take the
same course, a deputation from the anti-endowment
party in Scotland is making a successful appeal to the
inhabitants of our commercial and manufacturing cities
in the north. This evidence of the great interest at
present taken in the question of a National Church
will, we hope, suffice as an excuse for our referring so
much
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We have advices from Constantinople of the 6th ult., and
from Athens of a date six days later. The SULTAN has
abolished the office of Sadrazam, or Grand Vizier, and cre-
atedi thei European
or p
A
dignity
A
of Bash Veikil, or
pmiiner, itshas been appointed.
AKIFF PASHA has been again dismissed, through the in-
fluence
of his old enemy, RESCHID assisted by
llosnEFr PASHA, President of the Imperial Council.
The accounts from the Greek capital are uninteresting.
The anniversary of the first outbreak of the Greek revolu-
tion was celebrated on the 25th of March with extraordi-
nary pomp. The KING headed the Procession through
the city of Athens, and in the evening not only the
capital, but the top; of the mountains were illuminated.
Letters from Alexandria, of the 27th of March, an-
nounce another victory, obtained by IBRAHIM PASHA, over
the Druses. The health of the Prince, however, declined
so rapidly, that fears were entertained for his life. Let-
ters from Teheran, of the 7th of the same month, state
that the &limes troops had been repulsed in an attempt
to storm Herat, and that without strong reinforcements the
fortress was judged impregnable.

The inhabitants of Osnaburg, in Hanover, have peti-
tioned the G rmanic Diet against the Letters Patent of
King ERNEST of the Ist of November, abolishing the Con-
stitution of 1833. The petition, which extends over 105
folio pages, and is reported to be drawn up with singular

clearness and alAity, is expected to create a great stir
among the Constitutional States of Germany.

The whole of the Paris Journals of Friday have been re-
ceived. Those of Saturday have not yet arrived, but are
momentarily expected. The Chamber of Deputies is still
engaged with the Five per Cents. question, which is likely
to eccupy it for several days. The Toulonnais has the fol-
lowing news from Algiers, bearing date the 21st ult.

" The troops of the Emir have had a very sanguinary conflict at the
defile called the Iron Gate, celebrated by the combats that have taken
place there, whenever the Bey of Constantine wished to make an excur-
sion into tha province of Titteri, or that an attack was attempted against
him. The fate of the armies always depended on the Sheik of Biben,
who commands the most powerful tribe in the country—that of Beni
Abhis, in whose territory the Irongate is. The friends of AbdelKader
affirm that his General has passed through that difficult defile. Others
affirm, on the contrary, that he has retreated. It is difficult to know
what has really passed. We do not yet know positively whether
Blidah has been occupied by our soldiers, but the movements of troops
give reason to suppose that the important operation has taken place."
The defeat of NEGRI by ESPARTERO in the vicinity of
Burgos is confirmed, or rather reiterated, in these Journals.
Two hundred Carlist officers are stated to have been made
priuoners. NEGRI'S baud is reduced to 1,000 men, the
majority of whom are without arms.
A mysterious young man, calling himself FERDINAND
NAPOLEON, has been seized by the pone,: on the French
frontier.

As the Royal birth-day addresses are the subject of
some curious remarks in one of these Journals, it may be
allowed us, though at the eleventh hour, to give our
opinion of them,
The addresses of the Ambassadors and Peers of
France are comtnon-place affairs. Not so the address
of the Chamber of Deputies. How the courtiers must
have smiled, as M, DUPIN gravely pronounced the Cham-
ber's settlement of the question of the sex and rank of an
unborn babe
That will be ancther day of happiness for your Royal house, and of
joy fur the nation, on which will be born a son to the heir of the Crown,
the perpetuity of which is the object of our wishes, Instructed, Sire, by
the examples of yourself, and the Prince, his father, this third King of
our stew dynasty will find rendered easy to hint that which, in the este-
b lishment of a solid Constitutional Government, has been to us the
so urce of painful and arduous struggles.
The KING was resolved not to be outdone in unveiling
tl4e mysteries of futurity by his faithful Deputies. As they
had felt it to be their duty to disclose to him the disposi-
tion of the people of France, under the third King of his
dynasty, his MAiRsTY wits graciously pleased to inform
them in what way the third Aing and his remotest de-
scendants would conduct themselves 1—

My descendants will ever be faithful to those national sentiments
which have been the rule of my conduct throughout my life. They will
render themselves worthy of the will of the nation which called me to the
throne. They will, like me, endeavour to smother all animosities, and
rally all opinions round the one great interest, which ought to prevail
over all others, that of the country and the public welfare.
France is a happy country in possessing a King and re-
presentatives in all respects so worthy of each other.
" Sire, we will tell you what France will be under the sway
of your unborn grandson," shout the Deputies, in the ful-
ness of their loyal enthusiasm. " Gentlemen," responds
the KING, " though that grandson is unborn, I will gladden
your hearts by telling you what sort of a King he will snake."
In conclusion we award his MAJESTY the praise of playing
the seer much better than M. DUPIN,
The Brussels Papers, received this morning, censure
the conduct of the Government in submitting the Lux-
emburg question to a Secret Committee of the whole
Chamber of Deputies. This rage for premature pub-
licity is not only ridiculous but dangerous. It is sin-
gular how very little our liberal continental contemporaries
know about the regular and well regulated functions of
Government.

A letter from Bayonne, of the 28th of April, says, "Positive informa.
tion, received from St. Jean de Luz, says that Munagorri had arrived
there. It is even said that he has secretly entered our city."
The Madrid Journals are missing, and those from Bayonne do not
come on Thursday ; consequently we are without news from the Penin-
sula.

According to a private letter in the Quotidienne, the Infant Don Se.
Bastian will fix his residence at Toulouse, where a house is already pre-
pared for him. Before he left Madrid, says the same letter, the Prince
received three and a half millions of reals, the produce of the sale of a
stud which he possessed in La Mancha,—Le Commerce.
Lougoso, APRIL O.—The Count of Luchana has inspected the
fortress of Villanueva de Mina. It is there that he will place his re.
serve; after which he will march to Estella by the Vally ; all the out-
lets of which are occupied by our troops. Three thousand men have
been detached from the main body of the army for Reynosa; they are to
act in concert with, and, if necessary, reinforce Iriarte, who is still in pur.
suit of Negri; the latter is manzeuvring in the direction of Galicia, since
he has lost all hope of penetrating into the Asturias. All the Carlist
troops intended for the expedition left Estella on the 20th for Man-
clavia. It is affirmed that the Pretender will set out on the 25th.
Only five or six thousand men, under Francisco Garcia, will remain in
Navarre. Cabrera seems to be approaching the Ebro to facilitate the
passage of that river by Don Carlos. On our part Alaix and Leon El
Conde are preparing to dispute it. It is probable that there will soon be
a battle. Arrests continue to be made at Estella.

The committee appointed to examine the project of law on
the Completion of the public monuments has not contented itself
with approving the note of credit of 156,000 f. asked for the column
of Boulogne, but proposed to add a sum of 60,000 francs for the exe.
cution and placing of a statue of the Emperor, which will be nearly four
meters high, and weigh 80,000 lbc—Constilutionna.
FRENCH FUNDS. —rams, Malt 4.
Ft•e per Cents.. 107 f. Ke, 103 f. 107 f. 93c 75c. 85e.
Four per Cents., 101 f 9.5 e.
three Her Cents., 80f. 75e. 85c. 75e.
Bank Actions, 2,690 f. 2,700 f.
lente ae Naples, loOf. 80c.
Itonian Five per Cents., 103 W,
Spanish Actives, 21,,, 99.
Spanish Passives, 4%%.
Belgian Loan, 103.
Belgian Bank, 1,440 f.
Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents.
Haytian Loan, 495 f.
EXCHMIGX tan LONDON.
Or.e month, paper, •25f, 471,6 c..; money, .85f. 45e.
Three months, paper. 251. 32y9e. money, —f, —e,
LATEST PRICES,
Five per Cents. 108 f,
Three per Cents., 80f. 33c.
Bank Actions, 27001,
Romans' 103 W.
Belgian Loan, 103.
Belgian Bank, 1,440 f.
Portuguese Three per Cents., 22W.
blaytian Loan, 485 f.
Spanish Actives, 21%.
Spanish Passives, 4%.