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LONDON, Jui-Y 22. 1

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LONDON, Jui-Y 22. TP the accounts in the Paris papers are to be relied on, Ksnartero would appear to be in a desperate s'ate, with'little chance of his recovering his authority --that Narvaez had exchanged his defensive position in Valencia for a march on Madrid, and had arrived at Calatayud. on the road between Saragossa and Madrid, X%,itil ten battalions of 3500 men and 1100 cavalry-that General Aspiroz, with 5000 men and 700 cavalry, had arrived from the North on the mountains overlooking the capital, and their intention of thus converging on Madrid was to carry off the Queen whilst the Regent, ,v'io, when the insurrection broke out had marched with sufficient promptitude, had on his arrival at Albncete hp.come paralysed.- The Chambers of Peers on Tues- 'W'voted the whole Budget of receipts. In the course the discussion, questions having been addressed to Ministers respecting Spain and Ireland, M. Guizot replied that he considered it contrary to his duty, in the Present state of affairs in Spain, to eider into any ex- planation on the subject. There were only two points lo which he would refer. Although France was not rePresented at Madrid by an Ambassador, he did not lie.sitate to affirm that the interests of the King and the coiiritrv suffered no injury from the absence of such a ^"nctionarv at the Spanish Court. France, he said, '■arefullv ahs ained from exercising any influence, any direct or indirect interference, in the internal dissert- sions of Spain. The exiled Generals who lately re- turned to their country were perfectly free in France, and they quitted the kingdom without any connivance Or connexion with the Government. No arms had been Snl'plied by France, and a commercial house at Per- P'gnan having a short time ago demanded leave to pur- chase 20,000 stand of arms for exportation to Spain, tllat auti)orisation was formally denied and everything stated and printed in Madrid, London, and Paris, for 'be purpose of involving the King's Government in Passing even's at the other side of the Pyrenees, was false and calumnious. As to Ireland, he did not con- peive himself justificd in saying a word upon the sub- ject. He sincerely desired the perfect tranquillity of the United Kingdom, and he felt confident that it would he everywhere maintained or re-established. During the last '20 years, the English Government had done a Pood deal f;,r the welfare of Ireland. The Chiefs of the present Administration," said M. Guizot, "gave ^'Mancipation to the Catholics of that country and I have every confidence—and I here speak as a mere spectator of human occurrences—that they will recon- elle, in the management of this great affair, what is due 10 the dignity and unity of England, with what behoves the country and the benevolence which a good and wise Government owes to all its subjects."—It is understood that Admiral Mackau will be appointed Minister of Marine, and that the Session will close on Monday. New York papers to the lstinst. have been received, brought by the packet-ship Oxford, arrived at Liver- Pool, but they do not contain any news of general inte- rests.—The Cotton market was dull and prices had a downward tendency. Flour continued to advance in valiie, contrary to the expectation of most parties, and wheat was also improving.-The money-market pre- sented no new feature of interest; money was abundant, and good bills on England sold at J08!, on France 530 a32.». —Mr. Legare, the Attorney General of the United States, who had accompanied the President on his tour, died at Boston on the 20th ult after an illness of three clays. The remains of Mr. Legare were interred on the 21st. The funeral was attended by the President ar>d the Members of his Cabinet, the authorities of Boston, and crowds of citizens.—The President, owing '° indisposition and the sudden and melancholy death °f Mr. Legare, had stopped in the course of his tour, and returned to Washington.— Repeal meetings con- tinued to be held in the principal cities. The publica- 'ion of a speech of Mr. O'Connell, in which he de- bounced American slavery and American slave-holders, had caused a diversion against repeal, particularly in the South. At Baltimore a meeting in favor of repeal had been thrown into a state of confusion by allusion to the Hon. and Learned Gentleman's anti-slaverv sen- liments.-Tije singular case of Mrs. Catherine Gilmour alias Cochrane, who had been arrested on her arrival at New York from Liverpool, on a charge of having poisoned her husband at Paisley, attracted, from being the first arrest under the Ashburton Treaty, much pub- lie attention. The prisoner, after having undergone a second examination, was remanded untill the 1st of July. The British Consul had employed a lawyer to watch the case.—The Canadian papers by this convey- ance are to the 26th ult.- The village of Boucherville, One of the most beautiful on the banks of the St. Law- rence, had been totally destroyed by fire 52 houses, besides other buildings, the Church, Convent, school- room, and all the principal stores had been destroyed. —A verdict of justifiable homicide had been returned by the Coroner's Inquest held on the bodies of five men shot in suppressing the riots among the labourers at the Beauharnois Canal. The presence of the rm- litary had prevented a renewal of the disturbances. ■—The Montreal Herald has mentioned that men were drilling in retired places as if preparing for another rebellion. It turned out, on inquiry, that the rumour arose from the parading of militia-men" to preserve order" and "salute the Host," at the celebration of the Roman Catholic procession of Corpus Christi.— The Columbia s earner was seen on shore at Seal Island, half-way between Boston and Halifax, on the 4th inst., the weather fine, and several fishing-boats near her.

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