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tinue in his employment in Catalonia. The
portfolio of foreign affairs is confided ad in
terim to M. %radiilo, M. San Miguel having
obtained permission to join the army. It is said,
that this superior officer has embarked with the
intention of attaching himself to that of Mina.
M. Calatrava has accepted the office of Mini-
ster of the Interior; MM. Zoraquiu, Coosens,
and de la Barcena, appointed successively to the
Ministry of 'War ad interim, have refused the
portfolio of that department. •

( From the Journal des Debate of Tuesday.)

44 They write from Bayonne under date the
15th of May.—. 6 A report of the most important
nature, and to which reasonable persons seem to
attach considerable credit, has been circulated here
since yesterday. It is said that his Royal Highness
the Duke d'Angouleme has dispatched a message
to I%lina entreating him to make his submission,
and not to prolong a contest so unequal, and the
consequences of which must be so dreadful to
the Constitutional ArTy and to humanity, in de-
laying the deliverance of King Ferdinand and
the pacification of Spain.'—( Ruche d'Aquitaine.)

( From the Cotistitntiounel of Tuesday. )

gi SEVILLE, APRIL 30.—There is no Ministry,
and the heads of the Administration transact
business with much ill-will. Opinion!, are di-
vided on the change of residence or departure of
his Majesty, but the decision of this point will
depend, I believe, on the occuirtion of the ca.
pital.—(Extraci from the Monitear,Official Par•t.)

" BAYONNT, MAY 12.—(Extreict from our Private Cor.
respondent.)—The artillery which was at Madrid has been
moved in the direction of Baclajos, and the Comte d'Abisbal
occupies the pass of Somo-sierra with 8,000 men.
" There is no longer any question of negociations between
the Duke d'Angouleme, and the government of Seville."
All the Funds at Paris continued to rise on
Tuesday. Fhe French Rentecopened for money, at 88 f. AO c.
and closed at 88 f. 80 c.: for the account they opened at 88 f.
60 c. and dosed at 89 f. 20 c. After the shutting of the mar-
ket, they got up to 89 r. 85c. Spanish Bonds were in demand
for 45i, and Neapolitan Bentes for 77.

We understand that fresh arrangements have
been made for the conveyance of letters from
Vienna to varioas parts of ,the Russian dominions
via l3rody. The post is to arrive twice a week
at Moscow, Odessa, and St. Petersburgh ; and
in like manner letters Trom those towns are to
reach Vienna t‘s ice a week.

[Extract from the Agents to Lloyd's at Havre, dated May 20.]

" The following is ah Extract of a Letter,
dated St. Thomas's, 20th March, received here
from Bourdeaux We have at Guadaloupe
the French ship of war Jean Dart, hating cap-
tured a Spanish frigate of '22 guns, with about
six millions of dollars on board. There were
lying there 15 French merchantmen, to sail
shortly for Europe under the Martinique con-
voy.—By a letter from Martinique, dated 29th
March, received by the Esperance, arrived at
Dunkirk, we learn that the convoy had sailed
from that Island for Europe the 25th of that
month. The French merchant vessels Caroline
and Aurora are reported to have been taken by
English cruisers for beingengaged in tl►e Slave
Trade.—This report reaches us by way of Bor-
deaux, and the ships captured are said to belong
to Nantes.' "

M. BONNE MAISON.—III THE Sum of the 17th
of last March, there was a paragraph, under
the head of " Paris Papers," which stated
that " M. BONNE MAISON, a Painter, who is em-
ployed in repairing the apartments of the Duchess
of BERRY, being a Captain of the National Guard,
is to preside"- over a (Miser given in honour of
Serjeant MEactEn, who refused to act against
MANuer., when excluded from the Chamber of
Deputies, and to present a sword to the Serjeant.
The paragraph in question was copied Into Tut
Sus from 7'he Times of the 17th of March, in
which it appeared under the head of 44 Express
from Paris." M. BONNE MAISON is Indignant
that such conduct should be imputed to hint, and
we are desired to assure the Public that the
report, so far as relates to that Gentleman, is
wholly without foundation.

Mr. CHARLES Vauon tx entered on his func-
tions as our Minister in Switzerland on the 2ith of
last month. The same day Mr. WyNN, his pre.
decessor, took his leave of the President of the
Diet.

Yesterday the KING received a visit from the
Duke of YORK.

Prince LEOPOLD left town on Tuesday for
Claremont. His Royal Highness returned to
town last evening. _

FIRE Ix NEW-STREET, COVENT-GAUDY:N.—Yesterday
afternoon, at four o'clock, an Inquest was held at the house of
Mr. Huggett, the White Lion, Hemniings-row, St. Martin's_
lane, on the remains of the body of Mrs. Margaret 'Wood, who
pAiihed in the dreadful conflagration at the house of Mr.
4 iotte, Pastrycook, King-street, Covent-garden, on the night of
.thv 12. th inst. Several witnesses proved the fact of the fire
having taken place.—The Coroner observed, if there was mi.
dance to "thew that Chute had set the House on fire wilfully,
ire would be as intili 'guilty of murder, as if he had shot the
-dec eased, and this was what they had to consider.—A Juror
said some shavings had been seen carried into the house on the
evening the lire took place, and much suspicion attached to
(lotte.—After some considerable disc os*i upon this subject,
e.
the following verdict was recorded- " Tkedeceased was
burned to death in her lodging in .'tl Ifi'Wei but whether
the tire was. aecidowtalor Avilfui, ti - was no proof before the
jury." -....::: - 1 . ..
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