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LONDON, JULY 18.

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LONDON, JULY 18. THE Paris Journals to Tuesday inclusive contain little news of interest, foreign or domestic The Peers closed the Session on Wednesday, and the chambers were prorogued by commission. The lead- ing feature relates to a refusal of the Prefect of Police to permit a greater number than 1000 of the National Guard to meet at the banquet in commemoration of the Making of the Bastile on the 14th of Julv 1789 A de- putation from that body went up on Monday to the ^Minister of the Interior, begging of him to revise the judgment of the Prefect. The Minister received the deputation most graciously, but refused to accede to that request, and he begged leave to place the peace of the city in the hands of the Magiatrate who was res- ponsible for it. The consequence of this refusal has been to create great dissatisfaction in the ranks of the National Guard, by whom the dinner was indefinitely adjourned. Cabrera arrived at Paris on Monday evening at the Hotel d'Orleans, rue Petits August/ns. His appearance excited great curiosity on the road from Marseilles, and at all the relays crowds assembled to receive him. Several other emigran's have arrived since Cabrera crossed the frontier in France among others Polo, the brother-in-law of that Chieftain. Ross d'Erolles holds out in Catalonia, but lie is said to be so cooped up that he cannot possibly escape. Tristany has gone to the mountains, and threatens to break up his band into Guerilla parties. Accounts from Constantinople to the 28th tilt, state that the intelligence received from Syria was of a na- ture so unfavourable for Mehemet Ali, that the incli- nation of the Sultan and his Ministers for an arrange- ment with the Viceroy had suddenly become cool, in- somuch that the resident agent of Mehemet Ali at Constantinople had been prohibited communicating with Sami Bey, the Private Secretary of the Viceroy, who had arrived with a proposal for the restoration of the Turkish fleet, and who was under quarantine. This in- timation having been communicated to Sami Bey, he (on the 28th June) despatched one of the Secretaries to Alexandria bv a steamer to announce it to his master. Advices received from Jamaica via New York to the 6th nit. give particulars of a serious outbreak of the Black population at Falmouth, incited, as alleged, by a Baptist Minister named Ward. The account states that 100 Blacks were killed or wounded.—The follow- ing particulars, however, have since been received direct from Jamaica, which prove that the account in the American journal is a gross exaggeration. It appears that the Inspector of Police had received a warrant from the Magistrates of Westmoreland for the appre- hension of nine male and seven female Africans who had lcft-the service of the employer to whom they had been indentured, and were harboured at Falmouth by the Baptist Minister Ward. Part were taken in his yard, and part in the streets. The Justice before whom they were taken advised them to return to the property they had left, which they refused to do, on the plea that they had been hard worked and ill fed. The Jus- tice therefore gave them into the custody of the Police, 11 that they might be taken to Montego Bay, and there dealt with according to law. They refused to go. Ward appeared at the Court House as the protector of the Negroes, and while preparations were being made for carrying the Africans to Montego Bay, he demanded that they should be liberated on bail. To this the In- spector would not consent without an order from a Ma- gistrate. A disorderly crowd collected about the Court House, and two of the Africans who were unruly were handcuffed in spite of the remonstrances of Ward, who threatened to represent the conduct of the Inspector to the Governor. The noise without increasing, a Ma- gistrate was sent for, when Ward repeated his requisi- tion. On the Magistrate appealing to the Clerk of the Peace, the latter at first said that Ward's request need hot be complied with, but afterwards, on referring to authorities, admitted that he had been in the wrong. The Magistrate therefore told Ward that he would take bail if he required, but that, as the Africans had gone off quietly, it would be better to let matters stand. Ward would not consent to this, and an African in his service followed the others, who were on 'heir way, and advised them to stop. They did do, and the mob took a warm interest in their cause. The Riot Act was read, but the mob would not disperse, abusing and insulting the soldiers. At last, on the arrival of a detachment of the military from the barracks, the Africans were placed in a cart and carried off. On the return of the military to the barracks, the mob attacked them with stones and other missiles, by which several were wound- ed. At last the Africans were lodged in gaol, and then the disturbance ceased. The examination of Mr. Ward at the Police Office was unfinished at the date of the last paper Judging from the account in the Jamaica papers, it appears that both parties are in some measure culpable, the Baptist for an evident desire to create.a disturbance (to say nothing of harbouring the fugitives), and the Authorities for remissness in not taking bail, which it seems they were really bound to do. For sending his servant to stop the Blacks, when it had been once ascertained that they could be bailed, Ward Was hardly to blame, having once assumed to be their advocate; but the violent tendency of his language will not so easily admit of justification.

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