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London, England, 1835-10-24 00:00:00

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LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 24, 1335.

The accounts from Madrid, in the French Journals
of Thursday, are to the 15th instant. The Govern-
ment is reported to have adopted measures for march-
ing the troops, lately under the command of Count
DE LAS NAVAS, against the Carlists in Navarre. A
report prevails that the QUEEN has issued a final de-
cree for the entire suppression of all convents, both of
males and females, in Spain.
The language of the Press, with respect to the
conduct of the Government, is extremely flattering.
Most of the influential Journals declare themselves pre-
pared to go all lengths in favour of M. MENDIZABAL'S
Administration. Thosewhich do not express them-
selves so confidently are, nevertheless, willing to co-
operate with him in crushing the rebellion in the Bis-
cayan provinces. Besides the Madrid Papers, the
Vapor and the Journal of Barcelona pledge them-
selves to advocate the measures which have received
the sanction of the President of the Council. " The
acts of the new Minister," says the Vapor, " all
indicate progress—a happy intelligence in the ma-
nagement of State matters—an intimate acquaint-
ance with the opinion of the age and its neces-
sities. The programme of his march satisfies us.
The nomination to the command in the provinces
evinces a change, not merely of persons, but of
principles. The speedy re-assembling of the Cortes,
the new Electoral Law to be formed, the Estatuto
to be revised, these and the whole language of
Ministerial documents, prove sufficiently that the
Ministry of MENDIZABAL will support itself by pub-
licity, by legal measures, and that it will satisfy the
public wish."
There are some advices from the north which relate
principally to the marches and counter-marches of
small divisions. The Carlists are still at Estella, hav-
ing entirely evacuated Mallo. According to the Jour-
nal de Paris, the French coast guard was obliged, on
the 19th, to fire twenty-eight guns on the Carlists at
Behobia, as several of their balls fell on the French
territory.

In the Paris Journals of Thursday, the whole of
which we have just received, we find two articles on
the subject of some strange Bacchanalian revelries and
gross indecencies indulged in by certain Members of
the French Government, at a banquet given to a Mi-
nisterial shooting party at Grand Vaux, the seat of

Ministers, the Prefects of the
Count VIGIEIt. The :
Seine, the 'Chiefs of till e Police, and several other dis-
tinguished., enjoying the confidence of his
A i
Majesty,
jesty, t h
e s individualsov ereif
,n of the FRENCH, were present.
After dinner the pa rty is reported to have amused
itself by the expl, osion of petards and the fire of
musketry, arrange' Iso as to imitate the explosion of
FIESCHI'S -infer' • lal machine ; to have organised a
mock-attack 0 n. the barricades, and a sham
battle between • the army and the Republicans ;
to have parodied' M. DUPIN the President's Address
_ ..... .

to the Chamber c X Deputies, and to have mimicked
the proceedings o f the Chamber itself, in a way dero-
gatory to the dif nity of that Assembly. Obscenities
too gross to be - mentioned are said to have followed,
the party being in a state of brutal intoxication. The
first notice of tl its most scandalous affair appeared in
he Courrier l Francais, which called forth an angry
letter from (3( :neral JACQUENIINOT, one of the guests,
in which h( 1 , denied the right of public Journalists to
notice the ...festive gaieties of a social party. The
General f uirthcr asserted, that the statement which
had appe aced relative to an explosion of petards, •in
imitation of -the FIESC/II machine, was utterly false.
In the C punier Francais of Thursday, we find some
severe ar Llma dversions on General JACQUEMINOT'S
letter, with :a reiteration of all the statements which
had been ris ide, with the exception of the explosion
of the pet aids.
Thus s tands the case at present ; nor do we consi-
der oursel ms at liberty to express, in the fullest terms,
our opini, ms respecting it. We trust, for the honour
of humar t nature, that the report is wholly groundless.
Such scei les as theJe described in the Courrier Francais,
are only 5t to be associated with the Republican Mar-
' riarrbes, ai id the almost inconceivable excesses committed
in Franc e during the Reign of Terror. A horrible idea
recurs to the mind on contemplating the mock-con-
-1 filets and the massacres of the people, even in imagi-
nation, by the hired tools of the Government. We
will not trust ourselves with a more direct allusion to
what alone could have given rise to such commingled
scenes of butchery and obscenity, as are reported to
have disgraced the mansion of Count VIGIER. Upon
the minds.of the people of France the whole affair
will make a deep, and we trust a salutary impression.
i Should the report be proved correct, the dismissal of
I MM. TIMERS and DUCHATEL will be absolutely
necessary, to prevent a general rising of the people
against the Government.
The Journal de Paris and the Nouvelle Minerve
are at open war on the subject of an article, relative
to the war in Spain, which lately appeared in the
Journal de Debats. The following version of this
strange affair appears in Galignani's Messenger of
Thursday :
The Journal des Debats having published an ar-
ticle upon the events of the war in the northern pro-
vinces of Spain, the Nouvelle Minerve shortly after-
wards asserted that it had been written by an ex-aide-
camp of ZUMALACARREGUI, at the request of the
Duke de BROGLIE, who had communicated it to the
Debats. To this assertion the Journal de Paris
gave a formal contradiction, and challenged the Mi-
nerve to produce its authority. The Minerve, in
answer, published the name of General LATAPIE as
having written the article, and read it in the pre-
sence of the Duke de BROGLIE and M. GUIZOT.
The Journal de Paris replied, that it had express au-
thority to deny the correctness of this statement. Upon
this the Minerve inserted a letter addressed to it by
General LATAPIE, in which he declares that he is
under the painful necessity of stating that the contra-
diction given by the Journal de Paris is unfounded.
The Journal de Paris has since repeated its assertion,
that the statement made by the Minerve was incorrect,
and announced that the Duke de BROGLIE had in-
stituted a prosecution against the last-mentioned jour-
nal for a libel."
If the prosecution against the Nouvelle Minerve
be commenced, the responsible Editor may make
preparations for three months' incarceration and
the payment of a smart penalty. His inno-
cence—and we know him to be innocent in
this instance—will not avail him when M. BROGLIE
is the prosecutor. The Minister is sure of a verdict.
The safest course, then, for the editor to follow, is to
•implore the clemency of the KING, his Cabinet, and
all who are in authority in France—if so extensive an
appeal for mercy be required by the offended tools of
the Government. As to the morality of such a pro-
ceeding, more need not be said than that it is dictated
by the FIESCIII enactment, for restraining the truth-
telling privileges of the French Press. In the
" best of Republics," it is natural to suppose
that the people should enjoy privileges which
arc denied to men living tinder Monarchical
Institutions. Now in France the peculiar privilege of
this kind extended to the Press, is the liberty of dis-
pensing with truth in all that concerns the KING, the
Cabinet, and the general Government of the countr

And as to well regulated humane minds, it is more
agreeable to praise than to censure, the Press is autho-
rized—nay, most virtuously constrained—never to utter
a syllable, save in commendation of the acts of the Ad-
ministration. This of course results from surrounding
the throne with those " republican institutions"—the

barricades !
The following are extracts from the journals
M. Audry de Puyravcau, after having undergone a month's
imprisonment, in pursuance of the sentence of the Chamber of
Peers, has been set at liberty.
Letters of the 10th instant from Bilboa announce that Ge-
neral Evans is to be invested with the command of the pro.
vinces of Alava, Biscay. and Guipuzcoa.
PARIS, OCT. 22.—Three English ships from Malta have
arrived in the bay,of Cadiz. They are the Malabar, of 84
guns, the Endyndon frigate, and the Childers brig. Others
are expected from Lisbon. People do not know what to think
of the presence of this naval force in that port ; but it was oh.
served that these ships did not fire a salute till the Junta had
been dissolved.

The Gazette de France confesses that the Count d'Espagne,
who had penetrated into Spain, was driven back to the fron-
tier on the 11th and forced to return into France • and yet it
publishes a proclamation of that General, dated Oct. 14, from
his head-quarters at Saint Laurent de Mareniusw.

Mrs. d'Donnel, who lives at Paris, is preparing to go
and join her husband, who is a prisoner at Figueras.
The expedition against Abdul Kader will be commanded by
Marshal Clausel himself. It does not appear that General
Trezel, who is now at Paris, will make part of the expedition,
at least he has not yet received orders to that effect. No mi-
litary measure is neglected that can enable us to take signal
vengeance.

A's for the Duke of Orleans, his Royal Highness leaves
Paris to-day, as we hear. He will go to Corsica on board the
Castor steam boat, and afterwards go to Africa, where he will
arrive so as to be on the spot with the projected expedition.
He will, therefore, be in a situation similar to that in which he

was at the siege of the citadel of Antwerp, where he took part
in the dangers of our brave troops, under the eye of a Marshal
of France, who had the command.—Messager, October 22.

FRENCH FUNDS.—PAaIs, Oarom 22.
Five per Cents., 108 f. 60c. 71tc. 85c.
Four per Cents., WC
Three per Cents., 811. 35c. 40c. 65c. 70c.
Bank Actions, 2,155 f.
Rente de Naples, 99f. 10c. 20c. 25c.
Roman Five per Cents., 103%.
Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 3456.
Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 20541 ix.
Royal Spanish Loan, 3314 34%.
Rente Perpetuelle d'Espagn es 341,4 33% 31,i X %%.
Belgian Loan Five per Cents., 1024.
Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents, i'3%.
Dutch Two and a Half per Cents., 56f. 10c.
EXCIIANGZ ON LONDON.
o.^,e month, paper, —f. —c.; money, 25f. 5750 c.
Three mouths, paper, —f. —c.; money, 25f. 40c.
—Co dr.; Authentiane.
BOOM THREE o'CLocx.—There has been a good deal of
business to-day in the 3 per Cents., which opened at 81f.
55c., declined to elf. 35c., improved to elf. 75c., and receded
to elf. 65e., sellers. Great sales have been made by some
leading brokers.
The Spanish securities had fallen in the beginning of the
market, but have since improved with little business and a flat
market. No great speculators have done any thing.
QUAkTIR TO FOUR.—Five per Cents., 108 f. 95c. ; Three
per. Cents., elf. 75c. ; Five per Cents. Spanish, 341; Three
per Cents. Spanish, 20i. ; Cortes, 34k; Coupons, 19i ; Gueb-
bards, 34 ; Differes, 141; New Loan, 43 ; Actives, 43i;