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Frankfort Papers to the Ist instant reached us this
morning, but they contain little that is worth quoting.

The following ate extracts :

SWITZERLAND, OCTOBER 22.

The Governor of Suleu►e has addressed a circular
letter to the other Cantons, to acquaint them that the
convention by which certain innovations were made in
the tariff of import duties, was abolished on the gist of
this month. (This is the Commercial Convention,
commonly called " the Concordat of Reprisals," which
was intended to retaliate on France for the heavy duties
imposed on Swiss produce, but which has nat been found
to answer the end proposed).

(whio he intended to take to accelerate his recoiery, I
does not seem necessary, and his Holiness is wholly de-
voted to the affairs of Government. Some of the IVf i.
nisters have less power to aid the Pope in supporting
this burden. The removal of two of the chief Officers
of State is spoken of, the Secretary of State and the
Cardinal High Chamberlain. The Cardinal it is true,
who fills the first office, is far advanced in years, and
his strength is not equal to his zeal and abilities.

In a preceding colump we have given some extracts
from the French Papers, relative to the State of Spain,
which evidently does not improve in its condition. The
Intendant-General of Police had consulted his Majesty
FERDINAND on the expediency of banishing the heads
of 4,000 families from the capital. His MAJESTY re-
ferred the matter to the Council of Castile, which de-
clared, in answer, that such a proceeding would be
contrary to the act of amnesty. The authority of this
Council: for the present prevailed. The most lament-
able scenes of cruelty and persecution are described as
afflicting nearly every province of the Peninsula.
The Morning Papers contain an article on the proba.
bility of withdrawing the French troops- from Spain,
but how it has originated none of the editors seem able
to explain. One of them calls it a letter; another sup-
poses it to be a post-office translation of an article that
bad appeared in some Paris Journal which has not been
received. The myster ions article commerces with stating
that for some months past the French Cabinet has been
debating whether the Army of Occupation should be
withdrawn froM Spain---:" a measure which many serious
reasons render almost necessary r" these reasons are.
the anarchy that prevails in the Peninsula—the a I bi-
trary proceedings of the Government—its rigorous de-
crees—the refusal to grant an amnesty or to recognise
a part of the loans of the Cortes, when pressed to do so
by the French Government. The writer then proceeds
to say that—
" The continuation of the abode of the French army in
Spain would have been considered as a sanction given
by France to the course followed by the Supreme Au-
thority in Spain, and France could not take upon itself
such a responsibility. It has therefore been decided, in
the last Councils of the Ministers, that the army shall
leave Spain, except twenty-two thousand men, who will
occupy Cadiz,Barcelona, and St. Sebastian. These 22,000
men will not be considered as an army of occupation;
-there will be no General in Chief, no Intendant-General.
These troops, except those which remain at Cadiz, being
all in frontier towns, will be provided with all they
want by the French Military Boards, in the, same mari-
ner as those in the iatericr of the kingdom. This mea-
sure will reduce, by 800,000 francs per month, the ex-
traordinary expenses for the army, which have amounted
hitherto to two millions. All the contracts negotiating
for the supply of the troops in 1825 have been sus-
pended. Several Expresses have been sent to Madrid
to announce this important decision."
There is no doubt that the French Government is
placed in an embarrassing situation as to Spain. Not
a single advantage .har been gained by the march of
the French Army from the Pyrennees to Cadiz, and by
the subsequent .occupation of the Peninsula; and the
very moment the Army is withdrawn, the same scenes
will take place as were made the pretext for the war on
Spain. It is, however, impossible that, under any cir-
cumstances, the Spanish Government can continue as
it and almost any change would be for the better.
That it would in a moment be overturned were the
French Army withdrawn, no one can for a moment
doubt; but the abolition of the Apostolic Junta, and
of the influence of the Clergy, is a measure so indis-
pensable to the well-being of Spain, that it ought rather
to be hailed as a blessing than otherwise. The tsbsti-
nacy of FERDINAND becomes confirmed by such ad-
visers, and neither the remonstrances of Foreign
Powers, nor his own danger, awaken him to a sense of
the maladministration of affairs, and the evils his
Government is heaping on Spain.

The Bible Society is very active in supplying the Irish
with copies of the Holy Scriptures, both in the English
and Ii ish languages. This measure is of course resisted
by the Roman Catholic Clergy, which leads to some
tumultuous proceedings. A short time ago, we gave
an account of a Meeting at which the Archbishop of
MAN, who pi esided, was driven ficm the Chair by
clamour. The Dublin Journal, received this morning,
contains the following extract of a letter horn Carrick-
on-Shannon, dated the 2d November, which relates to
another Bible Meeting that was interrupted by a Roman
(Catholic Clergyman.
" The Anniversary Meeting of the Carrick-on-Shan-
non Bible Society was held yesterday. The Rev. Mr.
Percy in the Chair: as opposition to this Society is
now the order of the day, this meeting could not hope
to escape ; on the first motion being put from the
Chair, the Roman Catholic Clergyman of the parish,
stood up to oppose it ; this occasioned great uproar and
cries of 6 Chair, Chair;' silence having been at length
obtained, the Chairman in a mild, but firm manner,
stated that he would not permit any person to address
the Meeting, who was not a member of the Society—
but proposed to the opponents, to meet on any day they
should appoint to argue quietly and dispassionately on
the.subjecl. After some further conversation it was
agreed to meet on this day week under the following
arrangements—Three Clergymen. of each persuasion
to choose a Chairman ; the Reporters to be sworn, and
each side to have liberty to admit fifty persons by
tickets ; any person who speaks or interrupts the Meeting
to be immediately put out."—After this arrangement
the business of the day proceeded quietly. .

His Highness Prince.WILLIAM of Baurisu wic arrived
at Lausagute on the 17th, and set out on the 20th ult. for Carlsrube. ,