The Sun.
London, England, 1840-03-23 00:00:00

PRUSSIAN STATISTICS.

The following details lately received, as made up from
official and accredited documents, may serve as materials for
estimating the industrial progress of Prussia in agricultural
and manufacturing pursuits. From 1836 to 1838 the mean
importation and export of wool for all the provinces of that
kingdom are estimated thus:—
Imports
Exports
For 1831 the import was only 4,700,000, and the export
8.000,000 lbs. The total production of wool, and its
valtie, arc thus stated for 1838:—
Of fine wools, weighing each 2 lbs per fleece, the total
quantity produced, or sheared, was 7,367,934 lbs.: of
middling quality, weighing 24 lbs. per fleece, 16,431,763
lbs. ; of common or coarse wools, weighing 2i lbs. per
fleece, 10,783,218 lbs. The average market price of this
tine wool was 120 thalers per quintal, or eentzer of 110 lbs.,
the thaler being equal to about 3s. Id. sterling ; of the
middling sort, 80 thalers ; of the common, 45 thalers.
Thus the value of each was :-
7,367,934 lbs fine
16,431,763 middling
10,783,218 common . . 4,852,410
The total weight being 34.582,915 lbs, aad value
26,839,400 thalers. For 1839 the production is variously
estimated from 37,900,000 to 39,000,0001b5, and the value
from 25,500,000 to 29,000,000 thalers.
In 1838 the number of sheep was thus estimates, and

classed :
Pure Merinos
Mixed Breed . . . .
Coarse woolled

Total .

them so long as they remained bliad to the inefficacy el-
the measures for putting an end to .lavcry and the siavo-
trade which they advocated ; and we can as little co-
operate with them now th•tt one of their organs, Mr.
Fow•ell Buxton, has demonstrated the inefficiency
these measures, because the measures which it is
proposed to substitute are ludicrously and childishly
inadequate. True it is, that Government patronize
Mr. Buxton's new project, so tar as to propose n vote
of :35,000/. of primary outlay and 10,546/. of annual
charge to carry it into effect. And the morning organ
of Government patronizingly says—" The expedition to
the Niger may fail to produce all the good results wh'ol►

soine expect from it, but it can hardly to produce
much good." It hiss, however, been so long apparent
that the chance of any project's acceptance with Go
in
vernment is the inverse ratio of its feasibility ; and
the eulogy of the Morning Clirohicic is so like keeping
a door open to slip through, in the event of Lilure, thi:t
not ouch stress can be laid on either: Let us thcro•
tote br;cflv review Mr. Buxton's projtct, now in part.
the adopted of her Majesty's Ministers.
Mr. Buxton's plan is thus stated by himself:--
•' Ist. Impede and discourage the slave-traffic.
" 2nd. Establish and encourage legitimate commerce.
" 3rd. Encourage and teach cultivation.
" 4th. Impart instruction.
"To accomplish the first, we must
" Increase and concentrate our squadron, and mete
treaties with the chiefs of the coast, the rivers, and
the interior.
" To accomplish the second, we must.
" Obtain commanding positions; settle factories; and
send out trading ships.
" To accomplish the third, we must
" Set on foot an agricultural company. Obtain by
treaties lands for cultivation, with so much power as
may be necessary to keep the slave-trader at a dis-
tance.

" To accomplish the fourth, we must
" Establish a benevolent institution, somewhat on the
plar, of the Africa❑ Institution, and acquire all ne-
cessAry statistical information for the use of the mer-
chant, the agriculturist, or the teacher."

The portion of this chain of measures which Govern-
ment have undertaken to carry into execution, in so far
as we can learn from Lord John Russell's Letter to the
Lords of the Treasury (in which he declims to enter
into a lull detail of the plan itself," or of the ulterior
measures to which it may lead) is as follows :
" It is proposed to establish sew commercial relations
with those African chiefs or powers within whose domi•
nions the in!crnal slave-trade of Africa is carried on, and
the external slave-trade supplied with its victims. To this
end tile Queen has directed her Ministers to negotiate
conventions or agreements with these chiefs and powers,

the basis of which conventions would be, first, the
abandonment and absolute prohibition of the slave-
trade ; and secondly, the admission for consumption
in this country, on favourable terms, of goods the
produce or manufacture of the territories subject to
them. Of those chiefs, the most considerable rule over
the countries adjacent to the Niger and its great tributary
streams. It is therefore proposed to despatch an expe-
dition, which would ascend that river by steam-boats, as
far as the points at which it receives the confluence of some
of the principal rivers falling into it from the eastward.
At these, or at any other stations which may be found
more favourable for the promotion of a legitimate com-
merce, it is proposed to established British factories, in the
hope that the natives may be taught that there are method
of employing the population more. profitable to those to
whom they are subject, than that of converting them into
slaves, and selling them for exportation to the slave-traders."
Either a voluntary association is to be formed simul-
taneously with this movement of the British Govern-
ment, for the purpose of carrying into effect the two
last clauses of Mr. Buxton's measure, or the portion of
it recommended by Lord John Russell, is alone to be at-
tempted. In the latter case, the wiser plan will be, to take
the money at once and throw it into the sea, for thereby
no lives will be lost. The experience acquired by the
voyage of Messrs. Laird and Oldfield shows—first, that
there is not at present sufficient surplus produce of any
kind on the banks of the Niger to furnish trade ; second,
that the natives will not be allowed to trade with the
white men ; third, that the climate where a factory
is to be established is even more deadly than that of
Sierra Leone. Now, by a factory we have hitherto
understood a Government station for the protection
of traders ; but why establish a place of security
for traders where there is no trade, and where traders
cannot live ? We venture, therefore, to presume
that Government takes the step of establishing a
factory or factories on the Niger, on the understanding
that the two latter branches of Mr. Buxton's plan—his
force-pumps for raising a trade where none exists—are to
be immediately undertaken by some voluntary association.
In this cause we have something more than mere fac-
tories : we have territorial possessions," lands for culti-
vation (obtained by treaty), with so much power as may
be necessary to keep the slave-trader at a distance." Bri.
tain must acquire the sovereignty within a district npoa
the Niger, and the Government functionaries in this
new colony must " negotiate" with the "chiefs and
powers" of the Niger—must plunge into the inexplica-
ble and inextricable diplomacy of barbarous and broken
clans. The issue of this is palpable—either we must
retreat with disgrace from the position we have so rashly
assumed, or we must play in Africa the same game we
have played in India. The former is the mare propable.
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LONDON:
MONDAY, MARCH 23, 1840.

We mentioned on Friday the nature of the Ger-
man Toll Union, which has been so incorrectly
called the Commercial Union. We shall now
state a few circumstances to show what the effects of
the Union have really been on Germany itself,
and on its commerce with other countries.

To be enabled to do this effectually we ought
to know not only what the tariff in Prussia was
before the Union, which Dr. BOWRING in part
supplies, but also the tariffs of the various other
States, which we do not find in the report. In page
14 he says that the Prussian tariff of 1822 was an
improvement of that of 1818. In 182.5 the du-
ties on woollen warps w ere reduced. In 1832 the
duty on wollely yarn was lowered. The tariff of the
Zoll Verein in 1834 reduced the duty on carpets
and on woollens generally. The tariff of 1840 has
lowered the duties on cutlery, from all which we in-
fer that the present tariff of the Zoll Verein is not
higher, on the whole, than were the tariffs of the
different States which now compose it before it was
established.

The influence of the Union on the prosperity of
Germany, must, no doubt, be considerable. The
manufactures, Dr. BOWRING says, of the states
composing the Union, have received a great im-
pulse from the liberty of internal communication
which it has established between them. As respects
the various states of the Union, a perfectly free
trade has been established. In consequence there
have been improvements in machinery, &c. and the
price of woollen cloth manufactured in Prussia is
said to be decidedly lower than that manufactured
in England.
But when Dr. BOWRING speaks of free trade in
Germany, he means only free communication be-
tween the different States, while in eaeh State the
various kinds of manufactures are hampered by
Royal monopolies in each State, by patent or license
laws, by ancient guild regulations, and by an im-
mense variety of restrictions which render trade in
Germany the very reverse of free. This circum-
stance should be remembered in estimating the in-
fluence of the Union on the prosperity of Germany.
It must also be noticed that, besides the import
and export duties levied by the general tariff', there
are duties on transit which Dr. BOWRING speaks
of as exorbitant. Articles admitted without duty,
transmit without duty ; articles on which the im-
port and export duties together do not amount to
half-a-dollar per cwt. are to pay the amount of
those duties ; articles on which the export and im-
port duties exceed twelve dollars
twelve dollars per cwt. Such duties impede thit
transmission of goods through the Union, c-
pand a e
count, according to Dr. BOWRING, for the revenue
derived from this source not having' for
The rgsult, however, is, that a revenue of 14,000,000 rix dollars was in 1831 levied at a cost
of 16 per cent., while in 1838 a revenue of
18,000,000 was levied at a cost of 121
per cent.
The Union has therefore introduced economy
into the collection of the revenue. " The in- I

crease of population in the Union from 1834 to
1838 has been about 11 per cent., the increase of
duty on imports 40 cent., the increase of duty on
exports 30-i per cent., the average of transit is only
1 per cent., and the increase on the gross receipts
38 per cent." In round numbers we shall state
that the population of the Union was in 1834,
23,500,000, in 1838, 26,000,000. The import
receipts were in 1834, 13,763,458 rix dollars, in
1838, 19,235,823. The export duties were in
1834, 422,450 rix dollars, in 1838, 551,537.
Thus, whatever may be the prosperity of manu-
factures in the States composing the Union,
the duties they pay on export is very trifling,
while the continual increase in the amount of
the import duties, the tariffs not having
varied in any'important degree, shows a continual
increase of commerce with other nations. On the
whole, there can be no doubt that the Union has
knocked off some of the fetters with which in-
dustry was loaded in Germany, and increased the
prosperity of that great country.
We by no means repine at this. It has been
the fashion to represent the Union as very injurious
to English trade, but that, whatever may be the
effects of the tariff, or our own Corn-law, must be be-
neficial to England. It opens to our commodities a
free passage from Holland to Austria, and from
the Rhine to the Oder, paying one transit or Cus-
tom-house duty, while before the Union they had
to pay several transit duties. Notwithstanding the
very injurious effects of our Corn-laws, the trade
between Great Britain and Germany has certainly
not suffered by the Toll Union. The average of
the imports from Prussia, of the five years before
the Union, was 1,185,5091.; of the five years sub-
sequent to the Union, was 1,152,225/. But in
consequence of the fertile years 1834 and 1835,
the imports were more than half a million below
the average, while in the bad year 1838 they
amounted to half a million above the ave-
rage. As we only imported largely when
our own harvests were deficient, making our
trade with Prussia contingent on that, it is
not surprising that our exports to Prussia
should not have kept up like our imports
from it. There has been since 1829 a gradual de-
crease in our exports to Prussia, and they were less
in 1833 420,639/. than in any year subsequent to
the union. The average of the five years preceding
the union was 690,9521.—0 f the five years subse-
quent to the union it was 542,2781. Now, as this
decrease began before the union, and has been go-
ing on ever since, notwithstanding the continual
increase of the Prussians in numbers and wealth,
it is clearly the consequence of our own Corn-laws,
not of the Toll Union.

This view is also confirmed by the state of our
trade with Hanover and Oldenburgh, which are not
included in the Toll Union, and in which we no-
tice a similar decrease of our exports, and a similar
small import in the fertile years, and a similar large
import in the unfruitful year. It is perfectly clear
that our own fiscal laws have a much greater influ-
ence over our prosperity than the laws of Germany.
On referring to the accounts given of the ship-
ping employed between England and Germany, ex-
cept Prussia, we find a steady increase both of Bri-
tish and foreign ships. Thus, in 1829, the ships
entered inwards from the northern ports of Ger-
many, exclusive of Prussia, were 689, measuring
101,194 tons British, and 513 foreign, tonnage
49,517. In 1838, the numbers were, British,
739, tonnage 137,561 ; Foreign, 900, tonnage
68,825. A similar increase has taken place in
the ships trading between Holland and Belgium
and England, which in fact carry on a considerable
part of our trade with Southern Germany.
The account of our shipping with Prussia is
somewhat different. The number of English ships
entered inwards from Prussia was, in 1829, 744,
tonnage 125,918; while, in 1838, the number had de-
creased to 563, tonnage 86,734. The number of
Prussian vessels entered in wards in 1829 was 628, ton-
nagel27,B6l, and in 1838 969, tonnage, 175,643.
But it will be found that the united ships of both
countries were considerably more in number and of

greater tonnage in 1838 than in 1829. Supposing
that the variations in our currency may have had
some effect over the value of al:: commodities ex-
ported and imported, we infer from the gradual
though small increase of the shipping employed
between the two countries, that notwithstand-
ing the Corn-laws, notwithstanding the out•
cry made about the Toll Union, that the actual
trade between Germany and England has gradually
increased. We are confident, in spite of all the
uproar which interested persons have made on the
subject, that the Toll Union has been of more be-
nefit than injury to our trade.
We are not aware that the Prussians could, by
any means, smuggle corn and timber into our
country, but it may encourage us to lower the duties
on those articles, or wholly to abolish that on
corn, if it be remarked, that so lowering the duties
will make it necessary for the Germans to take com-
modities from us, in payment for what they
may send us. Now, should the Toll
Union not alter its tariff, whenever, by the
exportation of many commodities from Ger-
many to England, there shall arise strong motives
for also importing commodities from England into
Germany, it will be impossible to prevent the smug-
gling of cotton twist, cutlery, and various other
portable commodities, into the Union. FREDE-
RICK the Great found he could not put down the
smuggling of coffee. The boundary of the Toll
Union is very extensive, and, with a free trade on
our part, should the German States retain high or
prohibitory duties, the smuggler would redress the
injustice, and restore, to the advantage of England,
and the injury of Germany, the balance between
the two countries. Let us, then, do right to our
own people by the abolition of the Corn-laws, and
trust to the smuggler and the laws of trade, if need
be, to carry our cottons to Germany.

We quite agree with the Morning Herald,
which asserts that the Corn-law question will not
be settled in Parliament. Parliament may give a
legal form and sanction to the public sentiment, hut
the question will be settled out of doors. The
public voice, the public eye, and the public mind
noting and intrepreting the laws of nature, will de-
cide it. In fact, the question already is decided.
The Corn-laws must be abolished this year or the
next. The Parliament has already decided the
other way—it has decided that the Corn-laws shall
be maintained, but the decision of Parliament will
be overruled. It is far from omnipotent ; and when
the Herald says the question will not be settled in
Parliament, it admits the fact. It calls on the
agriculturists to employ means to sway the public
mind, lest the Legislature should be overborne. But
truth will be found more powerful than the land-
owners, and justice will be far stronger than Par-
liament. If truth and justice be on the side of the
Corn-law men, it would be superfluous to follow the
Heralds advice. Parliament has already decided in
their favour; and if truth, justice, and legislative power
be united in their favour, what reason can there be
to fear the, in that case, unjust clamour of the Anti-
Corn-law party ? The advice betokens doubt. The
writer in the Herald has misgivings. He knows
that the Corn-laws have not justice and truth on
their side, and he, therefore, calls on rich and ty-
rant landowners to uphold their nefarious exac-
tions by the liberal use of that gold and those arts
by which they have heretofore corrupted the public
mind and preserved their own superiority.

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binet to be premature. The KING had only consulted
M. LEBRAU on the general merits of the vote which
led to the resignation of the Ministry.
The Brussels manufacturers, terrified at the prospect
of a free trade, are petitioning the KING for restrictions
in favour of home productions. In England the agri-
culturists are all for robbing the manufacturers ; in
Belgium the manufacturers are for robbing thct Corn-
growers. There is no law-created right which men
are so enamoured as the right of putting their hinds
into their neighbours' pockets.
The Marriage of the Grand Duke ALEXANDER of
Russia, with the Princess SOPHIA. MARIA of Hesse
Darmstadt will not be celebrated till some time in 18a4n1
on account of the extreme youth of the Princess. The
marriage will be celebrated at St. Petersburgh
not at Darmstadt as previously reported. The Grand
Duke will spend the Easter holidays at the Court of
Darmstadt.

Letters received at Vienna from Constantinople on
the 10th inst., speak gloomily of the state of affairs in
the East. It was, however, the opinion in the best in-
formed quarters, that no hostilities would take• place
between the Porte and the Viceroy. The firmness
of the British Cabinet was producing favourable results_

Since the above was written we have received Brussels
Journals of Saturday, with advices from Vienna of the
13th inst. The Cabinet question continued in abey-
ance in Brussels. The prevailing opinion was that a
majority of the late Ministers would remain in office.

A letter from the Polish frontiers of the 10th of
March, after mentioning a report of the triumphant
entry of the Russians into Khiva, talks of the move-
ments of immense masses of Russian troops in the
neighbourhood of Odessa, and says that the advance of
IBRAHIM Pact-in upon Constantinople is an event
which has become exceedingly probable. " His numer-
ous emissaries," says this writer, upon whose statement
we have not now space for any comment, " have suffi-
ciently worked on the inhabitants of Anatolia to pre-
pare them for a general thing, to take part in a holy
war for the Mahommedan faith. On this account the
Russians cannot well enter with a few regiments,
but must emp!oy an overpowering force, to make
an universal rising in Asia Minor in favour of
the Viceroy impossible. The moral influence of the
Russian name is now great and general in the Otto-
man Empire ; the Russians, therefore, must not on any
account whatever suffer a reverse, and risk the illusion
of their invincibility.
Tne least misfortune would be incalculably injurious
to them, and give a new diplomatic triumph to the
negotiations against them.
The season when the navigation of the Black Sea is dan-
gerous ends with this month, and the Emperor can now
send his transports to the coast of Asia Minor without any
apprehension. Should anything serious be undertaken,
of which there is every appearance, the army will pro-
bably be divided, and one par►, land at Sinope, and take
the old road to Tari us to hinder IBRAHIM'S advance,
or to impede his retreat. The other half would pro-
bably land] in the Bosphorus, in order, with the aid of
the fleet, to protect the capital.

BELGIAN k UNDS—BRUSIELS, MARCH 21.
Actual Debt, •ls'i per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent 112%
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 93%
--- 3 per Cent. 7l N
Loan of City, 1532, 4 per Cent O5
Society of Commerce, 45..", per Cent lO9
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent Bi%
National Society.
Exchange on London (short)
—Brussels Papers, March '2l.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.--VIENNA, MARCh 13.
Five per Cents. Metalliques 1094
Foist per Cents lOl%
Three per Cents.
Bank Shares
—Allgemcine Zrilung, March 13

Madrid journals of the 14th inst. are before us. The
new Cabinet has issued a Royal decree against all
newspaper articles and caricatures calculated to pro-
voke the risibility of Spaniards against the Cortes.
This decree is but a proper sequel to the declaring the
capital, while in profound tranquillity, in a state of
siege. The siege, however, was raised on the 14th,
probably to celebrate the election of Senor ISTURIZ to
the Presidency of the Chamber of Deputies, a hich
completely establishe3 the triumph of the Ministers.
On the 13th and 14th the sales on the Bourse amounted
to upwards of 100,000,000 of reels, with improved
prices. The Five per Cents. Active were at 2911 and
29,1 for cash. The Scrip bearing no interest was at
9i for 60 days.

The Paris papers of Friday and Saturday have all
been duly received. On Saturday the Report of the
Committee on the Scent Service Bill was read in
the Chamber of Deputies by M. BEtiviLLE. The
Report stated that the Bill was regarded by the Com-
mittee in the light of a vote of confidence in the
Ministry, and that on that ground the majority had
agreed to grant. As to the application of the grant,
the majority were entirely satisfied with the explanations
given by Ministers. They had pledged themselves to
the declaration of their predecessors not to apply any
portion of the secret funds for subventions to the press,
or for obtaining undue influence at elections. Without
a vote of confidence, the Ministry could not staud, and
a majority of the Committee had agreed that they
were fully entitled to such a vote, and to a fair trial.
A Cabinet determined to carry out the glorious princi-
ple of the Revolution of 1830 could not go on looking
for support to this or that faction, but to the zeal and
patriotism of all honest and moderate men ; and this
was precisely the policy of the TILIERS Ministry. The
majority of the Committee deprecated a dissolution as
fraught with danger to the State, and declared that it
would now be honourable for the Opposition to support
the Government. The minority declined to draw up a
report, M. DE LAMARTINE stating in their name that
they opposed the Ministry rather on a point of honour
than with regard to principle. They considered that
to vote with men whom they had so long opposed
would lower them in their own esteem, as well as that
of the country. Truly France is the land of wonderful
politicians!
The only late news from Africa is contained in the
following telegraphic despatch published in the ..illonitcur
of Saturday :

" Toulcn, March 20, Half-past Ten a.m.
THE MARITIME PREFECT TO TIIE MINISTER OF MARINE.
" Marshal Vallee was to have quitted Blidah on the 12th
to arrive on the 14th near Cherchell, which will doubtless
have been occupied on the 15th, if the rain which fell on
the 13th has not delayed his march. General d'Houtelot,
with the column of the right, and General Duvivier, with
the left wing, were to follow up this movement, the
former by the hill of the Sahrl, and the latter by the
base of the Atlas, regulating their movements by that of
the centre."
The correspondent relates a curious story whispered
about in the Ministerial circles about this same Arab
conquering Marshal VALLEE. It is in substance as
follows :—" Marshal VALLEE not entertaining the most
profound reverence for the military talents of the late
War Minister, General SCHMaIDER, treated his des-
patches with a degree of indifference which sorely
nettled his official chief. 'When they arrived the
Gallant Marshal was wont to display an absence of
curiosity which, if exhibited by a novice in a Carthu-
sian Convent, would be a ao bad stepping-stone
to the honours of canonization. If in a hurry the Gal-
lant Marshal carefully pocketed his despatches un-
opened, and as he made it a rule only to read them
when at leisure, he followed the same rule in aswering
them. This was rather queer conduct, especially as it
was known that the Marshal was exceedingly prompt in
carrying on a correspondence with the Illustrious Per-
sonage, who was understood to be better informed of
what was taking place in Africa than the War Minister.
General SCHNEIDER was provoked beyond endurance,
mentioned the affair at sundry meetings of the Cabinet,
and at last obtained the consent of Marshal SOULT to
join General CUBIERES with Marshal VALLEE in the
command in Africa. This was officially notified to
Marshal VALLEE before the breaking up of the SOULT
Cabinet, whereupon the Marshal—at his leisure, of
course—replied to the despatch, that General CUBIERES
was a fool, and that if sent to Algiers, he would re-ship
him by the first steamer back to France. This com-
plimentary communication did not reach the War De-
partment till CuatEnEs had succeeded SCHNEIDER as
War Minister, and, consequently, was himself favoured
with the earliest perusal of the VALLEE despatch. The
document was at once submitted to a Cabinet Council,
and a sort of agreement come to replace the M irshal
by General BUGEAUD, of Tafna and dear beef notoriety.
But the good fortune of the Marshal has saved him
from the humiliation of being succeeded by the sage
BUGEAUD. The Marshal has taken the field much
earlier than was expected, and therefore has discom-
fited all his opponents by taking away all ground for his
removal. Besides, he is supported by the KING, and
indirectly by the President of the Council, who does
not wish him to be recalled. In the mean time, the
position of General CUBIERES is, to say the very least,
ludicrously delicate. He cannot open his mouth about
Africa without provoking the risibility of his colleagues.
On Friday the two actions brought by Lady EDWARD
LYTTON BULWER against Messrs. LAWSON and
THACKERY for subornation of witnesses and libel, came
on before the Court of Correctional Police. After
some unimportant debates an;ong the advocates respect-
ing the law of the cases, both actions were postponed
till Friday next.
The Earl of STAIR died in Paris on Friday. His
Lordship was deaf and bed-ridden for the last eleven
years.

The death of the King of HANOVER was rumoured
in Paris on Saturday. We believe the rumour to be
unfounded.

SPAIN.-The provinces of Cuenca and Guadalaxara ap-
pear, from the Madrid Journals of the 14th, to be the ob-
ject of the factious, who commit terrible ravages in them,
but as the Duke de la Vittoria presses them closely on one
side, it is natural that they seek on the other those favour-
able points for their .operations. They have burned the
church and the inns of Talayuclas, and then proceeded to
Candell to burn the church, which is quite new, and a
whole range of houses. Their object in committing all
those acts of devastation is to deprive the Queen's troops
of all the buildings which might serve fur their defence.
2,000 peasants and 800 mules are employed in the forti-
fications of Beteta. The glass manufactories of Recuenco
and Vindcl are employed in making grenades. Beteta has
four pieces of cannon. It is preparing for a vigorous de-
fence.

The division of Hopis which has lately obtained a bril-
liant victory over the factious at Campillo, is at present
at Priego. It is believed that the Carlist chief Poreadel
intends to throw himself into La Mancha.—Le Commerce.
We have said that Brigadier General Arnare, with
6,000 or 7,000 men, detachtd from the army of Cabrera,
had entered New Castile, whence he might perhaps assist
the discontented in Andalusia. Some purnals have said
that ho has entered Catalonia, but our private eorre-
s tile, and
e tc-
ho has
d ay informs
commencedustbat hea
is
plan of
really in
peew r a
oans
s.
that
which is suppoied to be very extensive.—La Gazette de
France.