London, Wednesday, July 7...
The Times, 1824-07-07T00:00:00

The Paris papers of Sunday were received last night. The Jourwal des Debats informs us, that on Friday the Stock Exchange presented an aspect of general desolation, the rentes having fallen nearly to par. What would have been the consequence of such a state of things had M. de VILLELE carried his law for the reduction of these same rentes from five to four per cent., when they scarcely sup- port their par price at five ? Another paper mentions the following iNscription, contained in the envelop of a twenty- franc piece thrown into a poor's box:-," Twenty francs "presented to the poor by an annuitant, who returns "thanks to GOD, the Chamber of Peers, and the Arch- "bishop of PARIS, for rejecting the law for the reduction "of the renter." The following are extracts:- (From the Ektoie, dated Monday, July 5.) " ST. CLOUD, JULY 3. " The King has heard mass in his apartments. After mass, his Majesty received the great Offlcers of State, the Ambassadors, the Mlinisters, Peers of France, Deputies, and a great numberof func. tionaries, both civil and military. "MADRID, JuNE 21. The Royal decree, relative to the levy of 36,000 men, ordered for the formnation of the Spanish army, was published on the 18th of this month, and notice has been sent to aU the towns and communes, stating thecontingent which each is to furnish." The Etoi!e gives the condlusion of the Pope's Encyclic Letter " What shall I say more? The iniquity of our enemies has so increased, that besides the deluge of pernicious books contrary ,to the faith, it even goes so far as to convert to the detriment of religion, the Holy Scriptures, wvhiclhave been given usfrom above for the general edification. :' You are not ignorant, venerable brethren, that a Society, vul- garly called the Bible Society, audaciously spreads itself over the whole earth; and that, in contempt of the traditions of the holy fathers, and contrary to the celebrated decree of the Council of Trent, it exerts all its efrorts and every means to translate, or rather to corrupt, the Holy Scriptures into the vulgar tongue of all nations; whiclh gives just cause to fear that it may happen in aU the other translations as in those already known-namely, ' that we may find in them a bad interpretation, instead of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the gospel of man, or rather the gospel of the devil.' His Holiness observes that several of his predecessors have ex- erted themselves to avert this scourge, and he himself, following their example, exhorts his venerable brethren carefully to keep their flocks from those mortal pastures, to make them fellow exactly the regulations of the index, and to persuade them that the translation of the Bible into the rulgar tongue does more harm than good. Quoting St. Augustin, his Holiness proceeds thus:-". Behold venerablebrethren, whithertbis8Soctety tends, which besides omits nothing to accomplish its impious wishes; for it glories not only in printiilg itS translations, but een in goirg about in the town and distributing them among the people; and even to seduce the sim le, sometimes it sells theni, and sometimes with perfidious liberllity gives them away." In conclusion, his Holiness eECS theC cause of all the evils that he deplores, in an obstinate contempt of thc authority of the church. The letter is dated the dofiay LONDOAN, WEDNESDAY. JULY 7. 1824.