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li«; d-| gattir&ay to iftSontra^g jffostg. J LONDON, MAY 13. THE Paris journals of Tuesday, Wednesday, and !je •>?" Thursday have been received since our last. Se f0I,m(?r day contain an amnesty which has a .• 1 granted, to all the individuals at present confined r' J1 prisons of the State in consequence ot judgments Pronounced against them for political crimes and ponces; and also that the penalty pronounced by the h^Ftof Peers against Victor Boireau and Francois F eUnier be commuted into that of banishment for ten yearSi Th.s dr)eg honour t0 Louis Philippe, and to M. i °le's administration. The influence of such an act 0 If ^volir of the minister will weigh against the iu- 0 uence of many speeches delivered by his more elo- 6qllent rivals. The pardon of Meunier was the first g I'eP in the path of mercy to the misled revolutionists. 6 We learn (says the Chronicle) that this great measure J lad been several times discussed in Council, and warmly J {"Commended by both M. Pasquier and M. Dupin of1 w'10 desired it, felt still a great weight f ^responsibility, and wished to limit it in divers ways. King himself, very late on Monday night, de- | that it should be immediate and as full as possible. ^Ven the ten years' exile for Meunier and Boireau as objected to by him." Such circumstances will Jdear him to his subjects, and make the coming years his reign years of peace and prosperity. The papers Wednesday and Thursday are so taken up with dis- .j 1$sing the merits and anticipated results of the IJinesty, that every other topic is at present forgotten y them. The more liberal the journals, the more ayish the praises bestowed upon the King, for so un- ."peeted an act of clemency. On Tuesday evening all the political prisoners confided in St. Pelagie were Set at liberty. Such of them as were destitute had 'tooney given to them for the purchase of such neces- sities as they may stand in need of, and to defray the of their journey to the places of their birth, if <*ey desire to return to them. The French political e'Ugees in foreign countries are now at liberty to re- t'llil home but such as have neither fled nor sub- mitted themselves to trial are exempted, because to pardon them would be a violation of the principles of ^?stice. They will, however, be now only tried pro and if condemned, the amnesty will without °"bt be extended to them.—The news from Spain in p'ese papers is of some importance. On the 3d, the Christines marched out of St. Sebastian and took pos- session of the heights and village of Loyola after some J^sistance on the part of the Carlists. On the 6th the ^rlists made an effort to drive back the Christinos, jj"t they were repulsed with considerable loss. The "jr8t effort of the Christinos to retrieve their reputation has been completely successful. The foreign legion, t, finder the orders of Gen. Conrad, has been, as we learn jrom Bayonne, reduced to 1400 men, incorporated in •^o battalions. A considerable number of his troops have declined to serve in Spain any longer, and by the "rst of August it is supposed that the legion will be dissolved. The particulars of the capture of Mialva, by General Oran, have been transmitted to j^aris by an extraordinary courier. It fell into the of the Christinos after an engagement of more than ten hours. The Carlists lost 300 men killed and ;60o prisoners. The loss of the Queen's troops was i0Uly twenty two men. This event took place on the ^th of April. The ship, Westminster, is arrived off Portsmouth from New York, having sailed on the 20th of April, three days later than the previous arrivals. They had received no further intelligence from England, but the l'eports of a probable connexion between the Bank of England and the Bank of the United States having Reached them, the disputes regarding specie payments .ran high. The commercial advices are very gloomy; heavy failures had again occurred, and the distrust was so general, that it was nlmost impossible to *aise money on any terms. One house, which stopped £ °r eighty thousand dollars, held securities worth three hundred thousand, but could not obtain assistance to *ave them. The hopes they entertained a few days before, of some relaxation of the rigour of the specie circular from the government, had been destroyed by Jhe decisive articles lately published in the Washing- t()n Globe. The two Banks which had failed in Massachusetts, those of Chelsea and Lynn, are de- clared to be complete swindling concerns: whilst the •Sports of the stoppage of the Randolph and other Hanks at Boston are positively contradicted. From New Orleans, Charleston, and other principle ports in the States, the commercial advices were very flat, every one curtailing his business as much as possible Until better times. el The general Banking law which was before the Congress has been declared unconstitu- tional by the Attorney-General, consequently it must he abandoned. The price of stock had declined 6 per cent. during the last three days.

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