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gaturftag to moiHiag'g ffogtg. LONDON, JULY 14. Pf^HE Paris papers to Thursday's date have been X received. Those of Tuesday announce the ter- mination of Lieut. Laity's trial before the Court of Peers, for having published a treasonable pamphlet. He was found guilty and sentenced to five years im- prisonment and a fine of 10,000 francs. The editor of Le Temps newspaper had been summoned before the Court of Peers for publishing what purported to be a report of the secret proceedings of that body on the preceding night. The papers of Thursday state that 1he Chamber5 of Peers terminated its labours on the preceding day, and was summoned, as well as the Chamber of Deputies, to meet the next day, when the Royal ordonnance was read for putting an end to the session of 1838.—The arrival at Brest on the 10th inst. of the Prince de Joinville was announced by telegraph. --The banquet given by the inhabitants of Toulon to the officers of the British squadron took place on the 7th. The hall was splendidly decorated the names of the most distinguished naval heroes of England and France were inscribed on the walls, surrounded by wreaths of laurel. The entertainment was (according to the Toulonnais) worthy of the two nations. The Commerce of Thursday publishes a letter from Toulon of the 8th, in the evening, stating that the British squadron was then under sail, and that the Rhada- manthus steamer left at noon to announce its return to Malta, from whence it would proceed to Corfu and the Levant The Constitutionnel states that Marshal Soult has written to his friends in Paris, informing them of the hi»h gratification he derived from the very flattering reception he met with in London. With the true adroitness of a courtier, the Marshal attributes this to the high estimation in which the King of the French is held in this couutrv. On the 7th instant the Provincial Council of Limburg adopted an address to the King of the Belgians, pray- ing his Majesty not to adopt the 24 Articles. The tone of this document is warlike in the extreme; the Limburgers being prepared to brave all the horrors of war rather than yield to the claims of Holland. It is supposed Leopold's real object in visiting Paris at the present moment is to escape the difficult and delicate duty of receiving and answering such addresses, before the final decision of the London Conference is known. The intelligence from Portugal continues to be fa- vourable. Tranquillity prevailed everywhere. The Government, it is stated, was gaining strength daily, and public credit was also rapidly improving, a proof of which is visible in the gradual and progressive rise in all the public securities, as well as the announce- ment of several capitalists of their readiness to advance money upon those Stocks at the rate of two-thirds of their market value. Letters and Papers from Madrid, of the 4th instant, reached town to-day. Forty thousand men of the new lew were fully equipped, and supplies amounting to two milllions and a half of reals, twenty thousand shirts, twenty-four thousand pairs of shoes, and ten thousand summer uniforms, sent to the army of the North. Four millions of reals were ready for the use of the army of the centre; and au excellent new bat- tering train, destined for an attack on Cantavieja, was in the course of conveyance to the head-quarters ot General Oraa. So much energy in the Government > had alarmed the partizans of the Pretender. In a fet. Sebastian letter of the 5th inst. is mentioned a report, brought in by some deserters, that the Carlist troops had suffered a serious defeat near Estella, which town, it was added, Espartero was besieging. It was also reported that an alarming disturbance had taken place in the neighbourhood of Ellorio, the present residence of Don Carlos. 1. By the last accounts from America it is affirmed that the American government is determined to act cordially in concert with the government of Canada in putting down the piracies upon the lakes and rivers, and in bringing the pirates to punishment. To be prepared for all events the American army is to be augmented, and new fortifications are to be erected where it is thought they may be required. A cordon of troops is tiso about to be established along the whole of the Niagara frontier, and no part of the river will be left unobserved or unguarded. A new war is threatened by some of the western tribes, which will give employ- ment to the military, and be of more inconvenient as the contest with Florida still lingers on. Jamaica papers have been received through the XJnited States to the 6th of June. The House of Assembly, summoned for the despatch of business, 'net on the 5tli. On the 31st of May the whole of the Negroes on the Arcadia estate, about 250 in number, were called together by the manager, and acquainted that in pursuance of instructions from Alers Hankey, Esq., the proprietor of the estate and their owner, the Whole of them would be declared free, and the re- tnaining two years of apprenticeship remitted to them on the 1st of Angullt next. It was hoped they would Dot then leave the plantation, as the manager would be glad to engage with them at as fair rates of labour as L, could be procured elesewhere. The best dispositions were manifested by the Negroes, who all declared they had no intention of leaving. From the tone of nearly the whole of the newspaper press of the Island, there is reason to expect that the Legislature and planters of Jamaica will be induced to follow the example of the other Islands, and concur in an Act for the final ter- nlination of the Apprenticeship system on the same day, fh the 1st of next August, when that of the pr&dial ? apprentices terminates. The Gazette of yesterday evening announces that the Queen has been pleased to confer the honour of Knight- hood upon Thomas Newley Reeves, Esq. Standaid Bearer of liar Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, and upon Benjamin Smith, Esq. Senior Member of the same corps, The Gazette also contains the appointment of Patrick Francis Gahan, Esq. to be Assistant Judge of the Bahama Islands; James Laidlaw, Esq. to be Secretary, Registrar, and Clerk of the Council, and Clerk of the Emo- luments, in the islitnd of Dominica; and Edward Hay hrummond Hay, Esq. to he Treasurer of the island of Trinidad. It is her Majesty's intention to give a grand Diplo- I matic Dinner at the New Palace on the 25th inst. The Fox Club had their anual fish dinner at Black- Wall on Saturday, at which 40 Noblemen and Gentlemen Were present. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge gave a State Ball last evening at Cambridge House, Piccadilly. The suite of state-rooms on the first floor were all opened on the occassion, and were fitted up with the utmost elegance and taste. On the sou th side of the mansion are three rooms opening en satite-tlie yellow drawing-room and the east and West drawing-rooms. The whole pi esented a most splendid appearance, and were honoured with the presence of her Majesty the Queen, and became the resort of the many distinguished foreigners and noble persons who attended the banquet at Guildhall. A serious misnnderstsnding has occurred, we hear, between the King of Hanover and the Duke of Cambridge, on a matter wholly unconnected with politics. The Duke of Cambridge, it appears, made an application lately to his Itoyal brother tor permission to occupy with his family the apartments at Kew Palace, formerly in the occupation of the Duke and Duchess of Cumberland, and now used as lumber rooms for such part of his Hanoverian Majesty's furniture and papers as he has not thought it worth while to have conveyed to Germany. The request, it appears, has mot with a very unceremonions refusal, to the astonishment 110 less than the mortification of the Royal Duke. r Her Majesty the Queen Dowager drove out in the parks yesterday in her pony phaeton and pair with outriders, and appeared out of mourning for his late Majesty. Her Majesty will not, it is understood, take her departure for Malta until the second week in October, when the Hastings, Captain Loch, which conveyed the Earl and Countess of ^-Durham, and suite, to Canada, will take out her Majesty to tile Mediterranean. The Hastings was splendidly fitted np f°r Lord Durham, and will afford ample accommodation to the Qiieeu Dowager and her household. An action for libel was tried a few days ago in the Queen's Bench, at the suite of Mr. Cooper, tailor, of Suf- folk-street, Pall-mall, against the Times paper for some atrictures affecting plaintiff's solvency, which appeared in that paper arising out of the fact that Mr. Cooper was one the sureties in the Berwick election petition for the liberals. A verdict was obtained by plaintiff, damages 100/. The annual dinner for persons employed by the jj^alers in newspapers took place on Thuisday,at the High- bury Tavern, Islington. Upwards of 620 persons altogether Xvere substantially regaled, and a ball took place in the evening. Mirth, though full and free, was not suffered to Pass the bounds of decorum, and probably as much real Pleasure was experienced by these indefatigable and de- Irving individuals as usually falls to the share of com- panies of much higher pretensions. A fete in favour of the distressed Poles took place 0,1 Friday morning at the Benlah Spa, when a Concert and Various other entertainments drew together an immense as- i semblage of Nobility and Gentry. MarshaISonlt honoured \!vIe Spa with his presence, and was received with the same Warmth which has been displayed whenever he has ap- 'Peared in public. Upwards of 11,000 tickets were dis- d)osed of on Thursday, and this large number was greatly Pigmented on Friday morning.

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