The Sun.
London, England, 1827-02-28 00:00:00

ment of the Administration of Justice in the High Court of
Chancery.
PAYMENT OF BILLS OF EXCHANGE.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL obtained leave
to bring in a Bill to declare the state of the law rela five to Bills of
Exchange and Promissory Notes becoming payable on Good Fri-
day or Christmas-day.
The Reports on the Marine Mutiny Bill, and the Mutiny Bill,
were ordered to be brought up this day, Mr. Hume having re-
quired that they should be postponed, in c-•der to enable him to
take the sense of the House upon a fitter occasion.
The remaining Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and
the House adjourned at a few minutes after ONE O'CLOCK.

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LONDON,
WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 28, 1827.

The French Papers of Sunday, with the Etoile dated
Monday, have been received, but their contents are not
important. These Papers are still occupied with the
debates in the Chamber of Deputies on the law respecting
the Press, and the trial of MAumtEum. The Etoile con-
tains letters from Madrid, announcing that the Portuguese
refugees who returned into Gallicia, had been disarmed and
sent into the interior. By a Royal decree, dated at Ma-
drid on the Bth inst., it appears that a levy of 21,000 men
is ordered to recruit the army. FERDINAND would no
doubt like to have an efficient army to back the views
of the Priests, but his decrees for raising troops possess
little more virtue than those for equipping fleas, so that
the Apostolicals must wait some time before the new levy
is able to take the field, either to support their own power
in Spain, or to subvert the Constitution in Portugal :
(From the Etoile dated Monday.)
MADRID, FEB. 15.—The Royal Decree, ordering a levy of
24,000 men to recruit the army, appears in to-day's Gazette,
and is dated the Sth of this month. The levy will take place by
ballot in the manner prescribed by the existing ordinances. Only
the time of service of the men included in it is limited for this
time to six years, instead of eight, as fixed by the same ordinan-
ces. In consequence of this modification, the Nobles, who had
the privilege of exemption on payment of a sum of 20,000 reels,
may now be dispensed with for 15,000.
Elder sons of persons not Nobles, to obtain the same favour,
must pay 6,000 reals, and besides furnish a substitute ; an indul-
gence which is extended, with the view of protecting learning, to
Students in the Universities, Seminaries, and Colleges, and also
to persons employed in the Post-offices, the Finance Department,
&c. Officers of the Royalist Volunteers are declared exempt by
virtue of a decree of 10th of September last, which had not yet
been published. As for the privates in the corps of Royalist Vo-
lunteers, the time they have served as such will be allowed them,
as determined in the regulations given them last year, which de-
clares three years' service in that corps equivalent to one year in the
army, &c. [The Etoile give extracts from the Lisbon Gazettes
of Feb. 10.]

In our Paper of yesterday we stated that the Empress
of BRAZIL had been seriously indisposed. We now regret
to find that she died in child birth, some days after the de-
parture of the EMPEROR to prosecute the war against the
Buenos Ayreans. The official dispatches, announcing this
event, have not yet been received, but there can be
no doubt of the fact, for the Harriet transport just
arrived at Portsmouth from Lisbon, spoke on the 11th
instant the Camden packet, from Rio de Janeiro, out
sixty-nine days, bringing the melancholy intelligence.
This event will prove:deeply afflicting to Don PEDRO,
and may possibly put a period to his warlike undertaking
against Buenos Ayres. The EMPRESS was the daughter
of the Emperor of AUSTRIA-
We have just heard that a Naval Officer, charged with
dispatches confirming the death of the EMPRESS, had ar-
rived at the Cove of Cork. Her Imperial MAJESTY departed
this life on the 11th December. _

That intelligent and liberal Paper the Cork Southern
Reporter, announces the fact in the following manner:—

DEATH OF THE EMPRESS OF THE BRAZILS.
REPORTER OFFICE, THREE o'cLocic.
We have just received the following letter from our Corre-
spondent at Cove :
" CovE, SATURDAT, FEB. 24.—The Surrey transport put
in here this morning, short of provisions and water, bound from
Lima and Rio Janeiro to Portsmouth. Sailed from Rio 14th
December. She brings despatches, announcing the death of the
Empress of the Brazils. She was daughter to the Emperor of
Austria, and died in Child-lied a few days before the Surrey
sailed. The Emperor had gone to the River Plate to head his
troops against the Buenos Ayreans."

Letters from Port-au-Prince, dated the 16th December,
mention that the Ilaytien Government had formed a
Commercial Treaty with England, and had declined
giving France the advantage of half duties.

Letters from Maracaibo of the 17th December, announce
that General BOLIVAR arrived in that place on the day
preceding.

Letters have been received in Washington City from
Guatemala, dated the let of December, which state that
order had been completely restored.

By the arrival at Liverpool of the William Thompson,
New York Papers have been received to the 2d inst. The
press of Parliamentary Debates prevents our giving
extracts from these Papers : but the most important
document in them is the report of the Committee on the
subject of the Bill before Congress, respecting the inter-
course with our Colonies. Of course the spirit of the
report is entirely favourable to the views of the United
States. But the opposition of England to the measure
will be more formidable than the framers of the Report
imagine, for the very tendency of the Bill is to give the
Americans every advantage at our expence. Vie can
never submit to have our commerce fettered by American
restrictions, while, at the same time, they demand access
to our Colonies without a reciprocal return.