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London, England, 1841-09-07 00:00:00

executing the census traptibyed by the Government. It
is added, that itnftiecliately after the Session of Council-
General of the Departments, the Municipal Council of the
Seine will be dissolved."—Le Commerce.

The King has given 500 f. towards the monument
which is to be erected at Bordeaux, by public subscription
to the memory of the late M. Henri Fonfrede.
The Minister of Public Instruction has named M.
Leclerc, President of the Academy of Inscription,
Messrs. Hase, Reynaud, and Libri, of the Institute, and
M. Danton, chief of the secretariat in the department of
public instruction, to be members of the Committee for
drawing up the general catalogue of MSS. in all the
public collections of France, those of Paris excepted.
The Hungarian papers state that the creation of a
national Hungarian Bank at Pesth has been authorised
by the Austrian Government.
The Swedish Government has issued an interdiction
against the publication of any translation from the
German of Strauss's " Life of Christ."

The Impartial of Smyrna relates that soon after sun-
set, on the 15th ult., a bright meteor passed across the
western horizon, leaving behind it two. zi;-zag trains
of great length, of paler hue, which lasted several mi-
nutes. The superstitious portion of the people considered
the phenomenon as indicating the approach of some re-
markable event.

The report of the Committee on the affair of the Con-
vents of Argau was made to the Swiss Diet in its sitting
of the 30th ult. It is as follows :—lst. The convents,
respecting which the decree of suppression of Argau is
to be regarded as null, shall have all their constitutional
rights restored ; 2d. The three opinions annexed to the
present report, as to the convents to be re-established in
their rights, as also the opposite opinion of a single
member of the Committee, shall be submitted to the
deliberation of the Diet ; 3d. If the affair cannot be de-
cided during the present session, the Diet shall adjourn
to the 1 1 thOctober, for the discussion of the question.
M. Neuhaus, President of the Diet, recommended that
this body should declare itself satisfied with the conces-
sions of the Canton of Argau. The opinions alluded to
above were modifications of the opinions of the majority,
more or less in favour of the radical party in Argau.
There was little doubt that the question would be ad-
journed, as the Berne papers state.
HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, Sen. 3.
Bills. Mnney
Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank Shares ISVS
Anglo-Russian Loan lO-% 10814
Russian 5 per Cent. lst series, Certificate
Inscription, Ist Series lO9. 101%
Russian 5 per Ccnt. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th
Series
Ditto in Certificates
Ncw 4 per Ceat. (1840) B6+4 Sri
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% pe, Cent :.0% tog
Ditto 5 per Cent
Polish Bond:
New ticket
Anglo..oairish Loan, 3 per Cert 75% 75%
Nmwegian Loan, 1834, 4 per CEnt...
Spanish, New 5 per Cents. 15%
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
HAMBURG, SErr. 1-13 6%.—Two months. 13 4%
PFTRRSRURGH, Atm. 24.—Two months, 39% pence.
RIGA, Ana. 2.. —Three Months, 39%.
ritusslAN FUN DS.— BBIILIN.Aix. 31.

_ __ _ _____ _
liiil, money.
St, Schuld. Sch., 4 per cent. looi AA
Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent 102 101 la
Exchange on London, three months 6 1”4
—Prussian State Gazette. Sept. 1

We have letters and papers from Madrid o
the 30th ult. Queen CHRISTINA having it no
longer in her power to appropriate to her own
use and that of her minions the proceeds of
the Royal domains, the Government is
now employing them in adorning the Royal
palaces, gardens, parks, and pleasure-grounds,
and in placing everything about the person of
the young QUEEN upon the most magnificent
footing. The Palaces of La Granja and Aron-
juez which the QUEEN MOTHER
,ba4
,allowed
to fall into a state of ruin, that she thigh t' appro-
priate the money set apart for their. rep'air's, are
being elegantly fitted up, and the approaches to
them improved and enlarged. Trees and shrubs
from the Island of Cuba, and exotics flora South
America, are sent for to embellish the pleasure-.
grounds.
The efforts of France to gain an entire ascen-
dancy in the Councils of Spain are not seconded
by the whole of the Madrid press, as we gather
from the following extracts from an article in
the Eco del Commercio :

" Everything combines to induce Spain to aim at
being on friendly terms with Great Britain. She has
witnessed the evils as well as the sterility arising to
her from the alliance with France, whilst she cannot
forget that whenever a question has arisen involving
Spanish nationality, when it has become a question of
territorial integrity, of independence, sr of her liber-
ties, the colours of Great Britain have invariably undu-
lated by the side of ours. Its co-operation and assist-
ance in ships, arms, ammunition, soldiers, clothing, and
money have ever been ready in order to contribute to
the attainment of the noble object the nation had in view.
The policy of Great Britain, so vast in its views, so
powerful in its results, whether directed by Whigs or
Tories, was invariably opposed to French policy ; and
everything likely to lead to emancipate us from the
latter will find the most energetic and sincere support in
the Cabinet of St. James's.

" From which we deduce-Ist, That the Salic law
and family compact imported from France enslaved
the nation and made it dependent ; 2dly, That, as
well under the reign of the principal branch of the
Bourbons in France, as in the times of the Re-
public, tee znipire, the Restoration, or of the
Orleans dynasty, the tendency of the French Cabinet has
ever been to influence our policy and dispose of our re-
sources; idly, That France has occasioned us evils of vast
consequence, compelling us to take part in all its quarrels,
interfering in our internal affairs, and making a cruel war
on us, when we were not condescending; 4thly, That our
alliance with Great Britain, whilst it favours our political
regeneration, interferes with the views as well as with
the future fate of France—and, lastly, that the bad
Spaniards are united to the intrigues of the French
Cabinet, and appear as if charged with misleading public
opinion as well as with the bringing about a quarrel with
our ally."

EXPRESS FROM PARIS
The Moniteur Parisien of Monday contradicts
the report of the detention of the French frigate
Victorieuse by the authorities of Mahon, and
adds, that the evacuation of the military hospital
on the Island Del Rey by the French had taken
place without any difficulties being raised on the
part of the Spanish authorities, who had been full
of attention to the French invalids.
The Sentinelle de Toulon, referring to this re-
port, observes that it was an absurdity to believe
that a well-armed corvette, of 24 guns, manned
with a brave crew, would suffer herself to be
locked up in such a place as Port Mahon, and
that the Regent 9f Spain, who was not disposed
to go to war for trifles, would order a measure
without example in the annals of civilised nations.
Count D'Appony, the Austrian Ambassador,
was on the point of leaving Paris on a conge
from his Government. The Baron de Thom
would, as Minister Plenipotentiary. conduct the
business of the Embassy in the absence of the
Count.
A Tunisian steamer arrived at Marseilles on
the Ist inst. having on board the Chevalier Raffo,
Prime Minister of the Bey of Tunis.
Advices from Algiers, of the 30th ult., state
that an expedition on the Hadjoute territory had
been postponed in consequence of heavy rains
which had deluged the ground, and rendered it
totally impracticable.
According to the Moniteur Algerein,_ the ap-
pointment of Hadj-Mustapha Oalid Osman to
the Beylick of Mossaganein had been hailed with
the liveliest satisfaction by the tribes inhabiting
the banks of the Cheliff, numbers of whom had
submitted to his authority.
On hearing that the Emperor of IMorocco had
ordered two small ships of war on a eruize (their
destination was said to be the coast of Portugal),
the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Holland had
sent notice to the Chamber of Commerce at Am-
sterdam, recommending that although there were
no reasons for suspecting the Morocco Govern-
ment of entertaining hostile intentions towards
the Netherlands, Captains of ships bound to the
East Indies or the Mediterranean should furnish
themselves with Turkish passports.
The Commerce publishes a letter from Athens,
of the 24th ult., stating that the Hellenic Com-
mittee were exerting themselves to revive the
Candiot insurrection, and that the Greek Jour-
nals in the pay of Russia openly preached a
crusade against the Turks. The English and
French Ministers had remonstrated with the
Greek Government for not repressing those de-
monstrations, which impeded the consolidation
of peace in the east.
The King of Hanover had left Ems and passed
through Cologne on the Ist on his way to his
capital.
The Prussian Government had deputed Gene-
ral Von Holchen, Inspector of the Fortresses of
the Germanic Confederacy, to attend the camp
of Compeigne. Several Prussian officers were
to accompany him.
M. Thiers arrived at Frankfort on the Ist in-
stant, proceeding to Wurtzburg.
The French funds rose in Paris on Monday, in
consequence of an article of a very pacific cha
ratter which appeared in La Presse.
The Actives were done at Madrid on the 30t1
ult. at 26 tbr cash.
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ACTIVITY OF THE MARKET LOOKERS.—
The Market lookers on Wednesday last seized and threw
into the river Croal, about 5,000 herrings in a putrid
state, which had been offered for sale in the fish market,
and yesterday they seized nearly 1,000 herrings, in Little
Bolton in even a worse condition, and also the greater
portion of a cow, that had died of the distemper.—Boltcn
Free Press.

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• .CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE.—There is at pre-
sent in the possession of Mr. Archibald Bell, Melrose, a
lien, which has, for three successive Sears, changed the
colour of its plumage. It was originally a' jet black,
then speckled, and is now completely white.—Scotch
Paper.