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LONDON, A PHIL. 25.

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LONDON, A PHIL. 25. rpIIE Paris Papers receiv ed tliis morning are nearly filled with the report of a debate in the Chamber of Deputies on the Slave question. No regular motion on the subject came before the House, and the debate arose out of an item in the Budget, of the Marine De- partment, by which it appeared that the police was to be increased in the Island of Martinque. The reasons assigned to justify this increase were, that the change lately made in the condition of English slaves had occa- sioned considerable fermentation among the French slaves, and that desertions of the latter from Martinique had become frequent, so that an increase of vigilance "tvas found to be indispensably necessary. M. Isambert took the opportunity to speak at great length against the system of slavery, and was followed by Messrs. Estancelliu, Laborde, Lamartine, and Mauguin. The Jatter gentleman endeavoured to vindicate the actual state of things in the French Colonies, though he did not go quite so far as to maintain that slavery should never be abolished. His chief ground of argument ^Sanist any change was, that the conditions of the -triglish Act of Emancipation could not be applied to the French Colonies. The Duke de Broglie spoke after M. Mauguin. He said that the attention of the Cabinet had been for a long time taken up with matters of so much more pressing a nature, that Ministers could not allow themselves sufficient leisure to consider the question of Slave Emancipation. The item of the Ma- rine Budget which gave rise to the debate was not put to the vote, and the further consideration of the matter was adjourned.—Some of the Paris papers refer to letters from Malta, according to which the British squa- dron, under the command of Sir Josias Row lev, arrived there on the 24th ult. from the Gulf of Smyrna. A report was in circulation at Paris on Thursday, that a revolution had taken place at Lisbon, that Dona Maria had been compelled to quit that capital, and that a Re- public he d been proclaimed. It was observed that the moment this news reached the Chamber the whole of the Ministry left the Hall. The arrival however of the William Fawcett steamer at Plymouth, on Wed- day, bringing intelligence to the 13th inclusive, from Lisbon, shews that the report was unfounded. All was tranquil, and not the most distant allusion is made to any Occurrence which could justify the rumours current in Paris. Up to the 14th not the slightest interruption to the tranquillity of the capital had taken place, and the effervescence produced in the public mind by the attacks upon the Duke of Palmella upon the occasion of the death of Prince Augutus had entirely subsided. The only party now interested in resistance to the Govern- ment is that of the Miguelites, whose numbers are greatly thinned, and their influence, by the growing strength which the new order of things is said to be daily acquiring, almost reduced to a nullity. The Court was beginning to recover from the grief, and the people from the shock, which the unexpected and sincerely-regretted death of the Prince Augustus had occasioned, and to turn their serious attention to the again matingthe Queen, a measure absolutely necessary to repress the factious esigns of the Miguelites. It has been hinted that her Majesty will espouse the younger brother of her late nusband. ihe match is said to be desirable upon poli- tical grounds, but objectionable upon all others. How- ever, her mother m-law, the Empress (Don Pedro's widow) is said to be anxious for it; she pledges herself for the character and inclinations of her brother: and it is thought not impossible to propitiate the Pope as to the canonical impediments. This matter is now upper- most with the Chambers; and after several debates with closed doors, a deputation was appointed to wait upon her Majesty to request her to turn her attention to the subject for the public good. The deputation was re- ceived by the Queen on the 12th; but her answer was not known. The Chambers had also finally passed the kT ^°r Sa^e °fnational property, but, by a consider- able majority, have negatived the project for making individual Miguelites responsible for the damage to property Occasioned by the late civil war. As the law now stands these indemnities are to be looked for from the public purse. This course is conciliatory, and the overnment, whilst it shews no fear, has no indisposition nnrec^cl*Vt3-opponenlsto the existing order of tilings. d»r?n riu appears to remain quite passive IT .^a 11 these occurences and incitements to his hopes. f^ome> devoting himself to the pursuit of tdop "ts, apparently preferring the excitements of isai>e to the -anxieties of politics. Nothing is seri- ously apprehended from him at Lisbon. By accounts from Spain we learn that Gen. Valdez, the Minister at War, had left the capital on the 9th, to assume the command of the army of operations in the north, proceeding by way of Yalladolid and Burgos to ampeluna, and travelling in the simplest, because 11 t1!c most expeditious, manner, attended only by two es-de-camp. It is stated that the Queen's Govern- mfrli noW nearly 60,000 men concentrated in the a* ti J!r<?vinces' a force nearly ten times as great i,p *at which Valdez commanded when formerly at the of ft w '8 army of °Peratio"s- The superintendence entr i'y %VePartment, during- his absence has been Tho l*5*6 Marescal del Campo Don Valentin Ferraz. ,ews frop Madrid states, that a courier had sip-n *• 10 caP1^a'' Nearer of General Mina's re- final i'* • the ReSen* would not allow it to be travl'v"' 1" consideration of the state of his health, Val,i a °f absencc of four months. General OUP EZ' assunied on the 10th the command of the ri| ,e" s.troops, and was marching towards the Bo- Hpirf|W1l-i'iree divisions which had been stationed diviV.J6 r7Tra' Mina hacl hastened to send him the ofth f 0 ^arrea'whic51 would increase the number 24 h.fJ°i-Ce J?ad com«ienced the campaign with to canifaiThe Queen had resolved not to quit the the °J Aranjuez. Besides her wishing to wait for deem espatches from General Valdez, it was not minic? P1 uc en^'UT,der existing circumstances, to di- „„ 1 ie garrison of Madrid by the number of troops *0 escort her Majesty to Aranjuez. In con- rif of 1 intelligence from La Mancha that a band insurgents had been organized there, Colonel wrasse had hastened his departure from the capital for ma Province General Oraa had published a procla- in'l vl r*°m nd°> threatening with the fate of the °.f kecarroz all the Navarrese who should conduct" ° 1111 dG t'ie'r ^stinate and criminal While the Peels, the Wellingtons, the Stanleys th« HfUrTn3' thP Knatct!Ilbulif?> f,1 the IngSis's of England J ft up then- eyes with such holy horror at the conver- iJ? %an expected surplus in the revenues of the Irish Church Establishment, whose followers average as one to ten in the population, to purposes of general education, among a people whose chief bane they ac- uowledge to be ignorance, behold what the renovated rnment ot Spain is doing with useless Church pro- pertY.-The accounts received by express from Madrid e 13th ult. communicate the fact that the Cortes siihrf^6^ t0 t1ie Pr°ject of the law which had been .i11 to that body about two months since, relative to the suppression of the convents. In the course of tinp C| i t00^ P^ce on the subject, M. Mar- r■ 1 stated that not less than 820 of these yg-'[C''US 'KjMi't'Kms were to be suppressed! The this\ C was calculated would be derived from was ^U,rce was estimated at two millions sterling, which prr applied to the reduction of the national debt. Was un('<?rstood, was to be made for the Were^t '"i °*iers who belonged to the convents which a ]>ei *m> suPPressed, either by providing them with cal'i 'I'0'1' 'Gl* P'ac*nS them in parishes to e>:ercise their rjfi' .1^ ^orne of the convents were very rich, and had sons'* 1CTI*° froin 50 to 70 monks and other per- mit Alle accounts confirm the previous advices re- ve to the departure of General Valdez to take the Carl? COmmand the constitutional forces againt the hi'oi/ri Was expected tliat tiie war would be to a c!oss during the present campaign. •"•nil'>G ^azeitc (VAugsburg announces, under date Vi- tlle I'th inst., that the Emperor Ferdinand had indisposition, but which was not con- Kated°( fC'"0lls- Rumours were sought to be propa- iilJs • °_ a misunderstanding between Austria and Wallla.i1-eS^ecVn- £ changes iii jMoldavia and uneas"C Ua' r"C'e former is stated to regard with lv'il! n~n^SS' an<' the reports in question contend fin "1(-' projected meeting of the three North- rVRr ei)tates at Kaiiscli. The general belief, how- is, ti;lt no danger exists that the present amica- be riei,dly connexion of Austria and Russia will r^ternipted. dros^t^<ir^r Geneva have published a stirring Ad- callii-jo-0 10 ■otestant Congregations of that canton, aPPro^ I!1-0" to join in a solemn celebration of the next j n £ "Jubilee of the IJeformation" in August thirti'ep1 to commemorate the conclusion of the and *ii, "nr-v which has elapsed since that great event— the Cl/" al! tile ^"formed Ciiurches througliout tlifj f]J'"5 luU world to a simultaneous celebj'atioii of t0 accounts from Alexandria of the 23d ^een ntf i l!,>00 persons who, mt to that time, had acked by the plague, 10,000 had died! Advices have reached town via Liverpool, from Bar- badoes and from all the neighbouring colonies to the latter end of last month and the accounts of the con- duct and industrious habits of the apprenticed negroes are exceedingly cheering. The Barbadian of March I 11th says,—" After all the predictions of a large majo- rity of slave proprietors, of ruin to West Indian pro- perty by the abolition of slavery, the prospect of fu- ture prosperity brightens every day. There may be, here and there, trifling exceptions, but we can safely say that the apprenticeship is working as well as any reasonable man can expect. The crop of sugar is ad- vancing as fast as ever it did, and this year it has com- menced unusually early." The mercantile letters which have been received from the Cape of Good Hope speak of the attack made by the Catfres upon the Colonists with increased regret, in consequence of the impediments which it will throw in the way of improvements with the agricultural in- terests in the'colony. To the growth of fine wools the Colonists had recently been paying great attention, and with the view of increasing that staple commodity se- veral investments had been made in procuring the finest Merino and Saxony sheep, and several flocks had been just imported into the Colony previously to the incur- sion of the CafFres. In consequence of the favourable intelligence of the breeding of sheep in New South Wales, the flock masters had endeavoured to improve the growth of wool in the Cape. The fine-woolled sheep consigned from New South Wales to the Colony had given much satisfaction, and it was believed that fine wools would soon have been an article of consider- able advantage to the trade at the Cape. The rams and sheep imported to the Colony had been chosen as the best specimens by competent judges. The Cape of Good Hope Agricultural Society had determined that a Cup of the value of 501. should be awarded to the proprietor of sheep who produced the best sample of wool from sheep lambed at the Cape, and a second Cup was to be given for the second best sample the quantity of wool was not to be less than 1001b. for each specimen.

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