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encumber our statute-book. Well might the LORD
CHANCELLOR terns it " the abominable statute of recu-
sancy." Any person importing a bull or document in
writing, or any instrument from the POPE, is guilty of
high treason, and subject to be executed as a traitor, and
to all the fearful consequences following such a convic-
tion, and yet we tolerate the religion. The bishops
and priests are recognised, who cannot carry on the
duties of their offices, the details of their Church esta-
blishment, without communication with the POPE, who
cannot be consecrated or appointed save by the same
authority. Various other similar statutes still exist, but
we are now happy to say they have been grappled with
in a spirit of true liberality and enlightenment, and we
shall shortly be enabled to utter the proud boast, that
no vestige remains of bigotry, intolerance, and super-
stition, and that our statute-book will be as :roe from
the reproach, will evidence universal tcleration, as
that of 4137 afttiolt In the universe.
The accounts from Madrid are of the 23d ult.

In the Gazette of that day we find a dispatch from Gene-
ral CONCHA, dated Orense, April 19th, in which he states that
he had, while marching to the relief of that town, heard that
the insurgents had retirad from bcfora it; that he should
await there the reinforcements and artillery which he ex-
pected would arrive from Monforte on the 20th; and that on
their arrival he should commence offensive operations against
the insurgents.

The political chief of the province of Orense, ILDEFONSO
FLOREZ DE FARAH°, writes to the Minister of the Interior,
on the 19th inst., in these terms:—" From a confidential
communication I have received, the column of insurgents
left, on returning to Vigo, a troop in Ridavaria, for the pur-
pose of selling the stock of salt, and levying a money-tax
The rest of the province is tranquil."

A column of infantry, under the command of Brigadier
SOLA, and 150 earbineers, commanded by Colonel Mitaxs,
had arrived at Orense, to reinforce CoNcita. Brigadier
MATRON has replaced General PUIG SAMPER in the ccm
mand of the Corunna expedition. Pura SAMPER, who has
resigned, has retired to Betanzos. A captain and a drum-
major have been arrested at Logrono, for conspiring to at-
tempt an insurrection. The authorities, who were apprised
in time of the plan, preserved tranquillity undisturbed. In
consequence of this attempt the Captain .General has de-
clared-the whole province in a state of siege, and has issued
a proclamation, decreeing "that all persons, having reached
their eighteenth year, no matter what rank, class, condition,
or sex they belonged to, who by word or deed should con-
spire, or cause to conspire, against the Government of her
Majesty the QUEEN, should be put to death without any pre-
vious trial or inquiry."

BANDERTO, an officer of carbineers who had joined
IRIARTE, has been taken prisoner. While such is the state
of things in the north of Spain, the southern provinces are far
from tranquil, and it was confidently anticipated in Madrid
that ere long the Sierra Ronda, in southern Andalusia, would
become the theatre of an insurrectionary movement. The
Government have suspended the publication of El Clamor
Publico and of the Eco del Commercio. According to the
Espanol several arrests of Progre&istas have taken place at
Saragossa.

MADRID BOLSA, APRIL 23.—Three per Cents., 31%. Ex,
change on London, 371 A.

We have received the Paris papers of Wednesday.
The Bordeaux and Cette Railway Bill, without any clause
compelling the company to form a branch line to Castres,
passed the Chamber of Deputies by a majority of 219 to 45.
The general discussion on the Western Railroad Bill
closed on Wednesday. The debate on the budget
would, it was expected, come on about the 20th of May.

A Bill for the extension of the fortifications of Toulon had
been presented to the Chamber by the Minister of War.
LECOMTE hag refused to engage counsel, and the Court
has consequently directed M. DUVERGIER, the batonnier of
the order of Advocates, to conduct his defence.
There was a grand review on Tuesday morning at St.
Maur, in the Bois de Vincennes. At twelve, the Duke DE
NEMOURS and the Prince DE JOINVILLE arrived with a
numerous staff. Very shortly afterwards appeared IBRAHIM
PACEA and his suite, in the Court carriages. In 1841,
IBRAHIM PAGLIA sent over to the KING of the FRENCH, as a
present, eight or ten remarkably fine Arab horses, and among
them the one the Pacha rode at the battle of Nezib. On
Tuesday, on the field at St. Maur, the Prince found his old
war-horse ready caparisoned for him. lie mounted his steed
with evideat gratification, expressing, in animated terms,
his gratitude for this mark of attention to him. The Duke
DE MONTPENSIER was at the head of the sth Regiment of
Artillery, to which he has lately been appointed colonel. At
five o'clock a grand dinner was given to the Egyptian Prince
in the apartments of the Duke DE MONTPINSIER in the
fortress of Vincennes.

The Courrier des Etats Unis states that the French Minis-
try has revoked its determination not to allow American
vessels to bring tobacco to France for the supply of the
Government. The Courrier says that Mr. KING, the Ame-
rican Minister in Paris, had protested against the first deci-
sion, and convinced the Ministry that, however natural it
was to desire to give exclusive favour to French vessels, the
doing so in the present ease would be a violation of existing
treaties between France and the United States.

The Presbc utnuMents upon *lda atztternent in the following

terms :

" We are still willing to believe that there is no truth in
this news. If it be, however, proved to the contrary we
shall not know how to condemn sufficiently the weakness, and
we might add, the ignorance displayed by the French Go-
vernment in the affair. What is the position of the Go-
vernment when it purchases tobacco in America to work
it up in its own manufactories and' afterwards sells it? It
acts in the quality of a merchant; it manufactures as any pri-
vate individual might do. If it suits a private trader better
to import his merchandise in French vessels, at a great ex-
pense, no one has a right to complain. It may be said that he
makes a bad bargain, but he cannot be reproached with a vi-
olation of engagement, for there has been no contract on his
part that the cheapness of freight by American vessels shall
be a decisive reason why they shall have the preference.
Every one acts in this respect as he thinks fit, and if he
thinks proper to make a pecuniary sacrifice by employing
French -vessels in preference to those of any other nation, no
one has any right to interfere. So much the worse for him
if he makes a bad speculation. There are no treaties in ex-
istence which can deprive him of the right of se doing. Let
the treaty of 1822 be reperused, and it will be seen how ex-
orbitant are the pretensions put forward by the American
Government. For our parts we cannot believe that our Go-
vernment can have allowed itself to be so easily persuaded
that it has been to blame in acting as it has done. This
question will doubtless be cleared up, as it requires to
be, for if the concession has been really made what will
be the consequence? The same right has been enforced
with regard to England as concerns the transport of coal
for our steam-packets and the use of the arsenals.
Although England was certainly injured by this measure,
she made no remonstrance, judging with reason that
there was nothing in it contrary to either the letter or the
spirit of the treaty of January 26th, 1826, which was founded
on the treaty concluded June 4, 1822, with the United
States. The moment, however, that it shall become known
that the claim of the United States has been admitted, Eng-
land will in her turn remonstrate, and what reason can be
given for refusing to the latter what has been granted to the
former ? _None whatever. The French Government will,
therefore, deprive our flag of the transport of coals as well as
of that of tobacco. It will aggravate the consequences of
the treaties of 1822 and 1826, which were previously so
disastrous to our maritime interest. It will consent to destroy
with its own hands, on an ill-founded claim, the only repa-
ratory act of which the national flag has been the object
since 1830. Such cannot be the fact. We, however, re•
member that the news given by the Courrier des Etats'Unis
was mentioned by M. Levavasseur in a recent discussion on
the credits for the navy, and yet neither of the Ministers
present contradicted it. It cannot, therefore, be deied,
that a great degree of probability is attached to it. It is
very desirable that a candid explanation should be given,•
in order to remove all uncertainty and inform our maritime
commerce what it really has to dread or to hope for on the
subject."

The Albatross, which arrived on Sunday at Toulon from
Algiers, brought 111014AMED-BEN-ABDALLAH, brother of the
famous Bou-MAZA, who is sentenced to perpetual imprison-
ment in France, to which the KING has commuted his
punishment from the capital sentence passed upon him by
the council of war of the Algiers division.
His Royal Highness the Prince of SAxE Com,Eci left
Algiers on the 23d instant, on board the Labrador, and
reached Toulon on the 25th instant.
The Grand Duke CONSTANTINE left Algiers on the morning
of the 23d. Nothing authentic was known as to the where-
abouts of ABD-EL-KADER.
The French Funds were a shade better on Wednesday.
The Three per Cents. closed at 83f. 70c. ; the Five per Cents.,
119 f. 95c. ; the Orleans Railroad shares, 1,237 f. 50c. ; Rouen, 1,037 f.,
50c. ; Havre, 760 f. ; Great Northern, 765 f. ; Avignon, 920 f. ; Vier-
zon, 672 f. 50e. ; Bordeaux, 625 f. ; Boulogne, 497 f. 50e. ; Troyes alai
Montereau, 415 f. ; Basle, 227 f. ; Dieppe, 465 f. ; Paris and Strasburg,
518 f. 75c. ; Tours and Nantes, 5421'. 50c.; Paris and Lyons, 572 f. 50c. ;
Spanish Actives, 32% ; Spanish Domestic Debt, 30% .
The following are the quotations in the new lines :-
Lyons and Avignon Definitives, 537 f. 50c.; Bordeaux and Cette
(Mackenzie), 502 f. 50c. ' • Ditto (Espeleta), 509 f. ; Charleroi, 490 f.
LYONS, APRIL 27.-Marseilles and Avignon, 927 f. 50c. ; Paris and
Orleans, 1,243 f. 75e. ; Rosen, 1,040 f. ; Lyons, 576 f. 25c.
iBUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS .AT Tim
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 30.
Dutch
Boulogne :and Amiens, 12%-Central of Spain, -Dutch
Rhenish, 6N -East Indian, %-Great Northern of Francejrg,2% _
Con-
stituted, 15%-Louvain and Jemappe, 1%-Luxembourg,
and Bor-
deaux, and Liege, 2-Orleans and Yierson,
11 h -Over Vase', 3 dis.-Paris and Lyonsl7Bonn and Havre, 30%
-°Constituted, 8
-Paris and Strasbourg Constituted, 5% -
-Sambre and Meuse, 5% -West Flanders, 23i•

NEWMARKET RACES
(THIS DAY-BY EXPRESS.)

BY THE EASTERN COUNTIES
ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Handicap ; A.F.
Duke of Richmond's Peasant
Mr. Payne's C(.llingwood
Mr. W. S. Stanley's Leaconfield
Match.—Alamode beat Sorella.
Match.—The Cob beat Corranna.

The Newmarket Stakes of 50 Sovs. each, &c.
Mr. Gulley's Pyrrhus the First
Col. Anson's lago
Lord Exeter's Galata colt

STATUE OF THE LATE KING CHARLES JOHN OF
SWEDEN .—A letter from Munich states that the bronze statue of the
late King Charles J.hn of Sweden was cast in the morning of the
23d inst., with every appearance of complete success. It Is believed
to be destined for the city of Norrkoping, and that it will be erected
In the course of the summer.
Lord and Lady Palmerston left Paris on Tuesday
morning for England. Marshal Soult caged upon thent on Monday
to pay 4 fa,IMI4