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LONDON, MARCH 19.

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LONDON, MARCH 19. THE Paris journals from Friday to Tuesday inclu- sive, delayed by the state of the weather, did not arrive till Friday morning. Their contents are inte- resting, inasmuch as they shew the influence of the new Ministry. The Chamber of Deputies was occupied on Saturday in discussing a motion for a general amnesty. The speeches related chiefly to the definition of the word amnesty." M. Sauzet, the Minister of Justice, maintained that an amnesty was a general act of grace extended to offenders of varions grades previous to conviction; others contended that it was perfectly applicable to the political offenders now undergoing punishment, and to those who had avoided trial by flight and were kept in exile by judgments par contumace. All agreed, however, that the Crown un- questionably possessed the power of extending pardon to political offenders after conviction but M. Sauzet thought it would have been unbecoming on the part of the Ministry to advise the exercise of that power by the Crown, as a similar act, originating with them, might have the appearance of a wish to force the Royal will, and he thought that the Chamber should, in respect to the matter under discussion, imitate the forbearance evinced by Ministers. The Chamber ultimately passed to the Order of the Day, The report of the Committee on M, Gouin's proposition for the reduction of the Five per Cents., read to the Chamber on Monday, closed with a resolution to the effect, that the discussion of the measure be adjourned, after a formal acknowledgment of the right possessed by the State to reimburse the holders of Five per Cent, Stock as soon as it may think proper. M. Thiers declared that the Government adopted the principle of the re- duction, but did net conceive that the present moment was the most proper for effecting the reduction itself. Ministers, be added, engaged to bring in a Bill to that effect next Session, unless any circumstances should in the mean time occur to render such a step unad- visable. The Monileur of Thursday states that intelligence had been received by telegraph of an engagement having taken place at Orunda on the 5th, and one at Galvacano on the 9th, between Espartero and the Carlists, in both of which the latter were defeated. Cordova, it was said, had alsp beaten the Carlists, on the 12th at Salvatierra, in the Boruuda. The MeSlager affirms that Don Carlos has at length succeeded in con- tracting a loan" with foreign houses," at the rate of 36 francs per 100 stock. Two millions of francs have, it is added, been already advanced to the Pretender, who will have the power of claiming the rest when he becomes master of Vittoria, and Burgos, if he does not find in the country itself sufficient resources. The' nominal capital of this loan is, according to some, oe 80,000,000 francs, and according to others francs (4,800,0001). Although the Messager seems to entertain no doubt about the truth of this intelligence* neither the Carlist organs nor any of the better-informed papers of Thursday morning allude to it at all. It is, nevertheless, notorious that the agents of Don Carlos have, for some time past, very industriously exerted themselves to raise money for him in France or else- where. By accounts from Barcelona of the 8th inst., it appears that tranquillity had remained undisturbed in that city. Mina was about to enter on a new cam- paign against the Carlist bands. The war/are in Cata- lonia seems to have degenerated to .a. mere work of assassination. Prisoners onooth sides are put to death in the most cruel manner, the instant they are taken. A Tonlon naoer of the 10th states that a naval expe- dtoJWrin" .here forTa.gier., fire to that town by way of reprisal fo/^pP°^rt, assistance -in men and arms secretly Emperor of Morocco to Abdel-Kader. Altho g Emperor has repeatedly denied haying^done French Government has, according to. the papers, acquired such stroug proof to the contra 3^ it cannot suffer the Emperor s participatio to the Stf. the elections hare been decidedly favourable to the Liberal X' the Gazette of the 7th we find a Royal Decree ordenng the appropriation to the Sinking Fund of all arre:irs-of rent due to the monasteries whose lands have been for- feited' to the State. The vacancies in. thft Cabinet haa not yet been filled up but it seems that M. MetMbzaMt ha4 entered anew into negociations with_ since the completion of the efections. and that the whole of the vacant offices ^ould be filled up Wore theapeninf? of thoC^e»_" order tlutthe JB«cu»i.e BkoaU Uenablaito "f}** fully-constituted Mhiirtrv, M. Men4izab«l ha«, t n £ t gone so far as to offer to gi?e op to M. *he Presidency of the Council, and leave to his choice the selections for the three vacant ofice^reserving f^r himself the Department at Financ, Ordi- (Mendizabal) is regularly appointed by a RoyalOrd nance. Some changes m the Foreign En'»^ies were talked of. It was said that the Duke de Rivas (a Li- beral of the Movement party) was to b? sent to Pans as Ambassador, in the room of General Alava, who is to proceed to this country in the same capacity. According to the latest advioes from Lisbon, affaire were in great confusion, and very general dissatisfactoon prevailed. A change of Ministry, nnder theDukeof Terceira, is spoken of as soon as Prince Ferdinand the husband of Doana Maria, arrives.

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