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LONDON, AUG. 13.

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LONDON, AUG. 13. HP HE Paris papers to Thursday's date have reached I town. The French Ministry had again been suc- cessful in the election of secretaries to the Chambers. They, however, sustained a slight check in the Cham- ber of Deputies on Tuesday, when, on the proposition of Odillon Barrot, an incjuiry was ordered to be insti- tuted into the circumstances of the elections of Messrs Pauwels, Floret, and Allier, the decision upon whose admission had been adjourned. M. Teste. the Minister of Public Works, vainly opposed the proposition, which was ultimately agreed to by a majority of about 50 votes. The House afterwards elected as questors Messrs. Clement and Leydcr. The Joit rnul des Debuts approves of all the provisions of the Regency Bill, and trusts that all the friends of the Charter and of the Revolution of 1830, of whatever shade of Parliamen- tary opinion they happen to be, will unanimously vote the project of law as presented by the Government. Thus," says the Debats, we shall consolidate insti- tutions which are dear to its, we shall do credit to our- selves by a perseverance of which our enemies do not consider us capable; we shall thus prove to all parties and to Europe, that our rights, our liberties, the Go- vernment which we have established, and which derives its principal force from its national origin, are hence- forth secure against those cruel and terrible blows under which absolu'e Governments sink and succumb." —The Presse states that M. Dupin would in all pro- bability be appointed reporter of the Committee to which the Regency Bill will be referred for examina- tion.—The Debats has a long article on a report that the German Customs Union is about to raise its tariff on several important articles of foreign manufactures, including some of this country, and expresses a hope that the Union will on reflection see the folly of such a measure as regards French goods, and rather seek to promote its real interests by favouring their intro- duction into Germany. The same paper reveals some projects of France in the Pacific, which will not, we suppose escape the notice of our Governnieiit. Ac- cording to a letter from Valparaiso, dated the 15 h of April, published on Thursday, it was the intention of France to make a settlement on the Marquesa Islands, which are situated in the Pacific Ocean, in. lat. lid. S. Rear-Admiral Dupetit Thouars, who had arrived at Valparaiso in the Reigne Blanche frigate, was be- lieved to have been sent to those seas for that purpose. He was to be joined by a flotilla of four corvettes, one of which, the 'Triomphante, had already reached there, having on board a company of marine artillery. A large transport bad been freighted by the Rear-Ad- miral, and laden with a considerable quantity of build- ing materials, which he had purchased previous to his departure. The Captain had been instructed not to open his despatches until he was far out at sea. If the expedition has 'his object in view," adds the cor- respondent of the Debats, it is a noble conception, for the situation of the Marquesa Islands is peculiarly favourable, being placed precisely on the road of the new line of communication between Europe and Asia across the Isthmus of Panama."—The heat had be- come almost intolerable in Paris; on Wednesday, at two o'clock, the thermometer (Fahrenheit) in a llorth- ernly aspect, marked 92 deg. The Madrid journals are to the 4th, and those of Barcelona of the 5th. Nothing important had occurred at Madrid, but at Barcelona the projects of the Joval- lenists still engage the public attention. Meetings of the Moderados had taken place at Barcelona, to cele- brate the anniversary of the birth-day of Queen Chris- tina' Officers of the army had taken part in them. Several of them have been deprived of their commis- sions, and others arrested. The brother of Marota was one of them. This latter having obtained from the Governor of the citadel leave to go out on his parole, has, it is said, gone on board one of the French ships stationed there—Don Francisco de Paula had arrived at St. Sebastian, and was received with all due honours. The Constitutional of the 4th publishes an order of the day of the Captain General Van Haten. in which he informs the troops under his command that he had ca- shiered two superior oificers of the regiment of inlamry of Guadalaxara, who had manifested sympathies for the principles proclaimed in October last by the insur- gents of Madrid and Pampeluna. Ten of these officers ieft on the 3d for Valencia. Advices from Lisbon to the 2d inst. have been re- ceived. The Chambers bad been finally constituted on the previous day, her Majesty having selected Senor Gorjao, from amongst the five candidates whose names were sent up by the Deputies, for the Presidency of of the Lower Chamber. A new commercial treaty with Brazil was likely to be very speedily on the tapis. The late French Ambassador, M. de Varennes, was also expected at the French Embassy, to resume the post which he was supposed to have finally vacated.- Senor Aguilar, the Spanish Ambassador, just arrived from Madrid, has had an audience of the Duke of Ter- ceira, in which he unfolded in his official capacity the various complaints of the Spanish Government against the Portuguese. The answers were so satisfactory that even the most unprincipled hostility could scarcely insist further upon them. The p-icketship Roscius, arrived at Liverpool, brings New York papers four days later than the previous arrival. Their contents are important. All the jour- nals agree in stating that the North-East Boundary Question was in a fair way of being speedily and ami- cably settled. The line agreed upon is nearly the one which the King of Holland recommended. The Ge- neral Government would, it was believed, reimburse Maine for her expences in defending the disputed ter- ritory and Massachusetts was to receive 150,000 dol- lars for her portion of the land that is to he given up. The treaty would, it was thought, include ia the set- tlement all matters of dispute. The Tariff Bill was before the Senate, which would, it was generally be- lieved, adopt it with some moditicrttiolls.- The dates from the ci, Nl- of Mexico are to the 18th of June. Pre- sident Santa Anna had celebrated the anniversary of his birth-dav by releasing all the prisoners who had bpen taken in the expedition to Santa Fe, on condition that, if they should be apprehended again with arms in their hands, they should suffer death.

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