The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-01-26 00:00:00

PARIS, JAN. 21.—The Duchess of Angouletne will
set out on a visit to Bourdeatsa on the 10th of the
ensuing month.
The Journal de Thoulouse states, with respect to
`the case of the assassination of M. Fealties, that in
addition to the arrest of the Er-Commissary Con.
stens, several other [moons will be apprehended.
• All the theatres and places of public amusement are
shut to-day.
French Funds—Five per Cents. Of. 85c. Bank
Stock, 1552 f. 50c.
MADRID, JAN. ft.—Our Gin Tile inserts to.tlay
the General Amnesty published by General Moriilo,
in Venezuula, on the 21st of September, granting
plarat.ti to all those who had taken or were taking
hart in the insurrection; and the Decree of the
11,0 )al Audience of. Caraccas, for carrying the am-
meaty into effect.

14'LANDEKS MAIL.

GuENT, JAN. 201.—The news of the deaths o'
Messrs. Lalahie and Ponticonlatit is absolutely
false ; these Gentlemen have not been bong in the
Erezils to which they have not gone.
Our manufactures are still lat-Auishing, notwith-
standing some assistance, owing to the munificence
of the Sovereign. The worm which corrodes our in-
dustry is in the legislation, and it must necessarily
sink, notwithstanding all the succours which a pro.
tecting but too powerless hand might bestow upon it.
There is no question better decided by the national
sonanimitylhan that relative to foreign manufactures,
which the whole nation rejects with a kind of horror.
If we except some individual speculators, strartger
to every passion but the love of gold, *e have beheld
the noble spectacle of the flower of our fellow-citi.
tens proclaim in the midst of universal applause
that the preference which we owe to the productions
of our own country is one of the thst principles of
our political creed.
The National Tribunal has re-echoed the same
cries, and if notwithstanding the public hopes, our
legislatiou did not require already in the last Session
the changes called for by public opinion, and by our
wants, it is because the Legislator wished to corro-
borate his conviction by the experience of a year.
This fatal experience has been acquired, and if no-
thing is now known, it is because there is a deter.
mination to know nothing. The Chamber of Com-
merce renew their complaints ; numerous memorials
just addressed to the Representatives, express the com-
plaints and the hopes of the nation. The Chamber of
Commerce of Namur has just entered the lists. The fol-
lowing are some passages of the Memorial which it has
addressed to the States General, on the deplorable
situation of the manufactures and commerce of a
great part of the kingdom,• and on the causes of the
ruin of our industry. It proves incontestibly the
causes of the rapid decline of commerce, and points
out the means of restoring it to that activity which
but lately was the admiration of our neighbours, who'
stow rejoice at its inactivity; by which they profit
" The Chamber does not enter upon the question,
whether the fetters imposed on commerce both by
vices of our system of Customs, and by the want of a
General 'Treaty of Commerce with the neighbouring
countries, are the result of policy. It is a diplomatic
question which it does not pretend to fathom.
" It confines itself wholly within the sphere of its