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LONDON, DEC. 12.

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LONDON, DEC. 12. THE whole of the Paris papers to Thursday inclusive have been received since our last. They still con- tinue to speculate on the probability of a war between France and the United States. It is stated in the Temps and several other Paris papers, that the offer of medi- ation on the part of England between America and France has been renewed, and some say accepted by France. Whether this be yet actually the case or not, there is reason to hope that, ere long, so desirable a result will occur. The equal good will of the English Government to both countries cannot be doubted by either, and both may be assured that it would recom- mend no compromise which should be in the least dis- honourable.—Lord Granville is said to have communi- cated his instructions freely and without reserve to the Citizen King, by whom he has latterly been received with extraordinary marks of kindness. Notwithstand- ing this, the Court of Versailles does all in its power to conciliate the Cabinet of Russia; for when it was noised abroad that M. Theirs and M. Gisquet had readily as- sented to the celebration of the Polish revolution, and had given up the Czar to the exiles, the Cabinet was so alarmed, that a contradiction of the fact was published in the Ministerial journals, and copies of them instantly forwarded to Count Pahlen, the Russian Ambassador. The extreme solicitude of France, in endeavouring to keep on good terms with the Czar, is really inexplicable. The Temps announces that Russia is preparing arma- ments, which are unquestionably destined to act against England and France. On Tuesday, the Court of Peers passed sentence on ten of the prisoners of the category of Luneville. The prisoner Thoqaas was condemned to expatriation for life Bernard to incarceration for twenty, and Stiller and Tricolet for ten years. The others were sentenced to confinement for terms varying from five to three years. On Thursday the Court was engaged in listen- ing to the act of accusation against another category" of the April prisoners, composed of men arrested at St. Etienne, Grenoble, Marseilles, and other places. The principal charge against some of them rested on their supposed connexion with the Society of the Rights of Man, as if that society had been fully and formally convicted of treason against the State. When these are disposed of, the trials of the 19 Paris accused will immediately follow, in order that the whole proces may be terminated by the 29th inst., the day fixed for the opening of the Legislative Session of the Chambers. The authentic Report read in the secret sitting of the Court of Peers on the affair of Fiesehi has found its way into several Paris journals. To publish it at length would be but for the most part to give a mass of useless repetitions.-It commences by a minute account of all the circumstances of the catastrophe, which is followed by a description of the apartment of Fieschi when it was burst open. A large fire was found burning, mus- ket barrels and bits of wood in all directions, a quantity of blood near the door as if a wounded man had fallen there, and a stream of this blood was traced to the win- dow where the assassin had escaped. The circum- stances of his arrest are well known. His first inter- rogatory took place an hour after his arrest. He called himself Gerard de Lodeve, and confessed that he had sought to kill the King, but was silent as to his accom plices. He had not made up his mind what part to act. "I will tell no one—will name no one I will take perhaps some resolution. My crime was stronger than my reason." Such were his ejaculations. When asked if the perusal of the journals had incited him to the act, he said" Pas trop" (not much), but afterwards said Yes." The Report then proceeds to discuss the tes- timony of a witness \vho' said there were three in the room at the time of tht explosion. An account is given of when and how Fieschi hired the apartment, and of a man in years who accompanied him, and of his being visited bv three women The trunk is then mentioned, which was sent, heavily laden, to Fieschi, three or four days before the crime, and sent back again the next < morning; this trunk, which was three feet and a half long, was found in the lodgings of Nina Lassave, who shewed signs of a wish to destroy herself at the time when the officers entered the room. A letter was even found on her, announcing this resolution. dint of interrogation, it was at last elicited from her that Morey had sent her the trunk, and that it was to Morey the letter found on her, announcing her desperate resolution was addressed. The- trunk had been forced open. Nina Lassave owned she had ordered this to be done she declared it to contain merely men's cloths; there were found in it, together with some plans of Paris, some razors, and a pawnbroker's ticket. The gunsmith who sold the barrels of the infernal machine recognized Fiesehi as the man to whom he sold them, and the coachman who brought the trunk to his lodgings recog- nized him also.—The Report then goes on to shew the connexion subsisting between Fiesehi. Morev, and N ina Lassave, and entersinto minute particulars of his anxiety to prevent the latter from leaving home on the 28th, but would assign no reason: she, however, did go out, and saw him drinking with Morey before one of the cafes of the Boulevard, but he would not suffer her to enter his room: he was very gloomy. Fieschi had told her, if she lost his support, she should apply to his friend Pepin, the grocer. Morey said he passed the night of the 27th with Fiesehi, but was not with him during the explosion. Had the thing succeeded, you would have been rich," Morey said to Nina: for there would have been a subscription opened, and Fieschi would have had at least 20,000 francs. Madrid papers to the 3d inst. have arrived. After three days' debate in the Chamber of Procuradores, the vote on the Address in answer to the Speech from the Throne was taken on the afternoon of the 2d, and, in spite of the fears which were previously entertained on the subject, proved highly favourable to the Govern- ment. The principal speakers in support of the views of the Administration were Arguelles and Galiano, both Members of the Committee, and Senor Puche, its Chair- man and Reporter. The ex-Ministers, Martinez de la Rosa and Toreno, although present, did not speak in the debate, but their party was represented by Senor Perpina, the Member of Tarragona. The Conde de las Navas distinguished himself by exclaiming against the proposed vote of confidence on the part of the Chamber, but admitted that the Government was already in pos- session of the confidence of the nation. The vote, how- ever, was passed unanimously, five members only hav- ing declined voting. The whole of the clauses having been agreed to, the adoption of the Address as a whole, and the appointment of the Deputation to go up with it to the Queen, was postponed to the following day. The unanimous adoption of this vote will strike terror to the hearts of theCarlists, and it will also materially as- sist in terminating the unnatural warfare in theBiscayan provinces, as those Powers through whose secret and corrupt agency Don Carlos is supported must see that his cause is now utterly hopeless. We have private advices from Madrid which convey assurances that the liberal party are resolved to throw aside all minor I ferences, and to forget all causes of personal hos I i y for the advancement of the main object of the overn ment-the pacification of Spain, and the restoration of the principles of the Constitutional Charter, From everything that we can learn, we are justified in assert- ing that the Queen's cause is now on the eve of obtain- ing a final and a lasting triumph. On the subject of the new levies, it is stated they are proceeding rapidly. Letters from Santander of the 27th November state that despatches were received there on the 2oth, and again that morning, from General Evans, dated head- quarters at Briviesca. The former contain the intelli- gence of an action which took place on it near Estella, hetween a numerous force of the ar is s> manded by Eguia, and the Queen s Cordova, the result of which was the discoi vvith retreat of the Carlists, after an obstinate strugg c, mth a loss to them of aoo men killed and wounded, the loss °n the side of the Queen's forces being ,• despatches received on the 27th state the an 21th of General Cordova, at the liead-qu^ General Evans, with whom he dined that da\, < to have reviewed the British Auxiliary Legion folio wing morning. General Cordova was in if, confident spirits after his victory, and this elatio confidence must necessarily have incie*!jS!Lirlipr- witnessing the advanced state of discipline and ,,oldier- like appearance of the men and ofhcer» o Legion; as he must return to his 'r'twill assurance that the presence of the Bn i> J j give not only efficient aid in the hour of battle, but serve as a stimulus and example to is tjent The British troops were in high spin s> • soon to move on to Vittoria, which they Jliarch the detachments here (one of w 1 after to-morrow) shall have joined tncm. Papers from the Cape of Good Hope to t ie September have been received, but they (.nn_ Miuch additional matter of interest. The r tinned along the whole line of the eastern roi r vided into different parties, committing e/cr^ tiiev depredation, and sacrificing the colonists w en fell into their hands. From one farm ley off 400 head of cattle, and from another 160. Letters from Canton, dated the 26th of May, state that a rebellion of rather a formidable nature had broke out at Nankin, in consequence of an attempt made to reduce the pay of the soldiery. Amongst other acts of violence committed by the soldiery, in revenge for this attempt, was the decapitation of several high Officers of the Government. Though the disturbances had not quite subsided when the express was received, the Su- preme Government, yielding to intimidation, had re- stored the pay to its full amount, abandoned its own Officers, and denied what was most probably its own act, by stating that it had not authorised the obnoxious proceeding. The Magistrates, or persons in authority, who had escaped the fury of the military, were displaced by the Government.

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