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saturtrag to jftto!Ura £ '0 Uoøtø. LONDON, DEC. 6. THE Paris papers of Thursday arrived this morn- ing (Saturday). Some of them refer to letters from Madrid of the 25th ult. from which it appears that new efforts were about to be made for the purpose of putting down the insurrection in the North. Mina, in his report to Government, has represented the state of the Basque provinces as improving. Six millions of reals (60,0001.) had been forwarded to him from Madrid; four more were to have been sent on the 25th. The failure of all the measures hitherto tried is ascribed to the want of energy of the Ministers, to whom their execu- tion has been intrusted, and not to want of resources and of means. A great deal seems to be expected from the joint exertions of Mina as Commander, and Llauder as Minister of War. The appointment of the latter ap- pears to have imparted a popularity to the Cabinet, Which it had latterly become singularly deficient in. The contract for the loan has been awarded to Messrs. Ardouin and Ricardo, at the rate of 60 per cent., and 3 per cent. commission. One half of the loan is to be carried to 66 per cent., in the event of there occuring a rise to a certain extent in the public funds. Prince Talleyrand is reported to have positively declined re- turning as an Anbasssador to the British Court, and the Duke de Broglia is named as his successor. Lord Brougham appears the principal object of attraction in the Parisian circles—literary and political. On Wed- nesday his Lordship dined with the King. His Majesty's brig Scorpion arrived at Falmouth on Tuesday from Lisbon, whence she sailed on the 25th ultimo. Affairs were up to that date progressing fa- vourably in the capital, and would tend to the permanent establishment of tranquillity. The Government con- tinued popular, and the Ministers, on the whole, were giving satisfaction. Letters from Brussels of Tuesday's date arrived on Thursday. They report that a courier arrived from Berlin, despatched by M. Breson, to announce that the affair of Luxemburgh was under serious discussion in that city, where the Emperor of Russia was then so- journing (he left it on the 25th). It was added that the question would be decided against Belgium, with a threat of intervention if it did not submit to evacuate the Grand Duchy with a good grace.—The letters go on to say," Two General Officers, who have been allowed to reside here with their families for the last year, have received orders to proceed with their respective staffs to take the command of their divisions—one atTrimonde, and the other at Mechlin. Other similar preparatory measures are taken, and will be continued, proportion- ed to whatever demonstrations may be made on the part of the memy. But if the English public have time just net to think of this country at all, it must not believe the ridiculous reports which are abundantly afloat, such as each Belgian battalion having received gi reinforcement of 300 men, and the like exaggerations, Sopied with perfect faith into London papers from sources here the most unauthentic. It is enough to know, that in a week from this day the Belgian army could, with perfect ease, show a front of from 40,000 to 50,000 men on any threatened point of the frontiers, well disciplined, well officered, and well disposed to try the brunt of war with at least an equal number of the enemy. The King is, as ever, ready at a moment's notice to put himself at the head of the army. But no one seems to expect, any more than fear, an attack. In fact, until the return of the Prince of Orange from Berlin, and his appearance at the head-quarters of the Dutch forcesj'"Ít'would be idle to form any conjectures on the subject." Papers frotn Jamaica to the 29th of October, a month later than by the previous arrivals, have been received. The Legislative Session had been opened on the 7th by a Speech from the Governor, in which he recommended some alterations in the Militia Laws, and also considered it advisable that power should be vested in the Execu- tive to issue special commissions for the trial of criminals in cases where it might be considered advan- tageous to bring the culprit to justice on the spot where the offence was committed. He also stated that he considered it quite impossible to carry on the new system of apprenticeship with the present number of Magistrates, and that lie had sent home strong remon- strances on the subject.-On an answer to the Address being moved in the House of Assembly, a long debate ensued, in which it was contended that a greater num- ber of Magistrates would only increase the difficulties and impede the working of the system. A paragraph to that effect, and casting a slight reflection on the stipendiary Magistrates, was drawn up in the answer, but it does not appear whether it was suffered to remain or not, as neither the answer itself nor the result of the debate is given. A Committee was, however, appointed to inquire into the causes of the general discontent among the apprentices, and forty summonses had already been sent out. An almost universal deter- mination on the part of the apprentices not to work for wages during their own hours is said to have been entered into.

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