I Provinces.

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adequate to the company that would assemble on the
occasion, so that a building was erected for the ex-
press purpose, on the Calton Hill, and so designed
as at once to accommodate the largest numver, and
to render the voice of the speakers audible through.
out the whole circuit. It was a very splendid affair.
The number present was about 2000.

i" The Emperor Nicholas is said to have responded
to the demand ofthe Porte for assistance against Me-
homet Ali, that his engagementto offer him aid, was
only in cases where he was attacked, and not where
he was the aggressor.

. Another fire had occurred in Moscow by which
200 houses had been destroyed.

2 THE C1-toLErut prevails with great fatality in many
parts of Europe and particularly in Sweden. Up
to the 19th of September there had been 3179
cases and 1276 deaths of that disease in Stock-
holm, containing a population of less than 80,000.

7 Spaniards are equally admissible to all public
employments, and all are equally bound to take upon
themselves the burden ofpublic service.

8 All Spaniards are bound to pay the taxes voted
by the Cortes.

9 Property is inviolable, but is nevertheless sub.
ject—-—- -I

“ 1. To the obligation of being ceded to the State
when so required for any object of public utility, a
competent indemnification being always previously
awarded by the judgment of impartial men.

2. To penalties imposed by law, and to damages
in virtue of sentences legally pronounced———confisca-
tion of property is abolished.”

10 The authority ofa public functionary who com-
mits any aggression on individual liberty or person.
al security or property, is responsible conformably
to law.

11 The Secretaries of State are responsible for
infractions of the fundamental laws, and for the
crimes of treason and odicial extortion.

12 A national guard shall be established for the

~ LONDGN, SATURDAY, SEPT. 20.—-The Paris papers
are received. The Moniteur gives the following
otlicial intelligence received by the French Govern-
ment from the Bayonne: “A telegraphic despatch
ofthc ltith states, that the Guipuscoans had attempt.
ed an attack on Tolosa, but without success.-—
They were on the 15th in the direction of the
passage of Oyarzun. Zumalacarreguy was march-
ing against him with Lorenzo and Figueira. The
Junta is at Etchalar. Don Carlos has remained at
Biscay." The attacks of the Carlists against Boga.
rn, Viana, and Tolosa, indicate a change in their
position. Tolosa is an important place, and has a
‘strong garrison; some particulars respecting the
attack. upon it are, therefore, extremely desirable.

, Arena, formerly the companion in arms of Rodil,
in Peru, was shot by him, in Bilbao, on the 16th
instant, together with the Major Douro of the Mar-
quis dc Valespina, and the Secretary of the Junta
(Des los Agunos.) They are entrapped by the Span.
ish frigate Pearls. Rodil has burnt the Duke of
Granada’s palace to the ground, in revenge for the
Duchess or Granada having celebrated Don Carlos’
return. .

In the Chamber of Procuradores, on the 9th inst.
General Burton addressed himself to the President
of the Council of Ministers, in the hope that he
would communicate to the Chambers the real state
of_ affairs respecting the Civil ‘War in. the Northern

.M. Martinez de la Rosa replied:

.“ In the northern provinces, more than 40,000
men are on foot, of which number 20,000 are destined
to guard the fortified towns, the coasts, and other
parts. In the immense plains of Castile are 15,000
men, so that we cannot charge them with incrtness.
What we want is the means, the pecuniary resources
for greater exertion. The real plan of the war should
be to occupy all the military points with sufficient
forces, and thus to contract the space in which the
insurgents act, to force them to lay down their arms.
But for this purpose numbers are required; and the
equipment, the arming, and the support ot the troops,
form the largest items in governmental expenses.-—
’We are compelled to regulate our movements by the
state of our funds, and we have the consciousness of
having discharged our duty.”

Spanish Bill ofRig7tts.-——The.following is the Pe-
tition, as approved in the Estate, and read to the
Queen on the 11th inst.: “‘ i r
“ Petition on the Fundamental Rights of the Spuni.

ards, as approved by the Estate of Procuradores

at its last Sittings.

‘The Procuradores of the kingdom pray your Ma-
jesty that you will be pleased to sanction as funda-
mental rights those which are contained in the fol.
lowing articles:

Article 1. The law protects and consolidates indi-
vidual liberty. :

2 All Spaniards may publish their thoughts by!
means of the press, without previous censorship ; burl
subject to the laws which repress abuses.

3 No Spaniard can be prosecuted, impressed, ar-l
rested, or removed from his dwelling place, cxceptl
under the circumstances provided for,in the manner
prescribed by the law. A

4 The law has no retroactive effect, and no Spa-
niard shall be tried by commissions, but by the tri-
bunals by law established prior to the perpetration
of the offence. The same rule applies to civil
transactions. a '

5 The house of no Spaniard can be violated, ex-
cept under the circumstances which are or may be
ordained by law. I

6 All Spaniards are equal before the law.

preservation of public order and the mautenance
of the laws. Its organization to he the subject of a
aw.”

The Madrid Correspondent of the Morning He-
rald, dated the 11th instant, represents the enhanced
fears ofthe French Ambassador, (M. De Rayneval)
that a new crisis would occur from the hourly in-
creasing strength of the Democratic party. He, M.
De Rayneval stated further, that the insurrection in
the Northern Provinces was beginning to cause scri.
ous alarm to the Government, and mentioned a re-
port that a rising had taken place in Galacia; that
portions of Aragon and Catalonia were in revolt, and
that the Urban Guard of Barcelona had refused. to
march. He concludes by averring that the Treasu-
ry was completely exhausted.

The Spanish Ministers have ordered a quantityof
waste lands throughout the kingdom to be sold.

A conspiracy has been discovered in the neigh-
borhood of Malaga, and several districts round Car-
thagena, where an attempt at insurrection was made,
and 500 Carlists turned out.

[From the Messageh] ‘

PARIS, SEPT. 18.——The Renovateur makes the
following reflections on the report of the majority
of the Finance Committee to the Chamber of Pro-
curadores : V

“ A declaration for the possibility of Spain to pay
all its debts, the homage paid to the Revolutionary
principle by annihilating the Royal Loans, and re.
cognize those of the Cortes. There is in this re-
port more than a bankruptcy——there is an entire re.
volution. The men who are the authors of this re.
port have calculated all the effects of it, and seem
determined not to make any concesion. We are as.
sured that the Secretary of the Committeeahas
written to Paris-——‘ Though the Frenchflovcrnment
were to fall on its knees before ‘us, we never will
acknowledge the loans contracted since the year
1823 by Ferdinand VII.” i

A French Journal is going to be published at
Madrid under the title of Courrier du Nord. The
Royal License has been given to M. Morat.

His Majesty’s brig Espoir, arrived at Falmouth,
on Wednesday, from Lisbon, whence. she sailed on
the 8th. The Minister of Finance has made his re.
port, in which very flattering prospects to the trade
of Portugal are held out, and it is upon the whole
calculated to inspire confidence. The critical state
of the Regent’s health has, of necessity, given
greater urgency to the consideration of the young
Queen’s marriage, which now becomes a question
of the first importance.

This subject is accordingly attracting great atten.
tion, and was at the date of these accounts under
deliberation in the Council, where it was expected
that the matter would he immediately concluded
with the young Duke of Leuchtenberg, the Em-
press’s brother, whose pretensions appear to have
received more general favor than any other candi-
date forthe honor of Donna Maria’s hand.

The protest of Don Miguel against the treaty
which he signed previously to his leaving Portugal,
is held to be an authentic document; and couse.
quently no payment will be made to him on ac-
count of the pension to which he would have been
entitled ifhc had performed his part of the treaty.

LATER mm“ EURopI§.———-By the packet Ship Inrlc.
pcndeme, Capt. Nye, from Liverpool, there are pa.
pers of the 523d, from London.

The Spanish “bill of rights” had received the

sanction of theycorces, and only waited for that of

AMERICAN RAILROAD JOURNAL, AND

the§Queen, which it will not be deemed prudent to
withhold.

The guerilla warfare between the partisans of Don
Carlos and the Queen, assumes no more certainty,
or decisive character, than heretofore.

The report of the Finance Committee still engages
much attention in the French papers, and when the
grounds of the decision are considered, that report
will be found a very remarkable document. Ashort
extract which we published from the Renovateur of
Saturday, was suflicient to direct public attention to
the main principles of the resolution adopted by the
majority of the committee. They do not enter into
the financial ability ofSpain to pay the debt, but they
deny its validity; they do not, by refusing to pay the
loans contracted by Ferdinand, confess to an act 01:
bankruptcy; they proudly say they never borrowed
the money, that they do not owe it, and, therefore,
that they will not pay it.——[Courier.]
[From the Alexandria Pheni:c.]

LATEST FROM THE W'Es'r INI)tEs———Dreadful Hur-
ricane at Domimica.-—By the Brig Edward, Capt.
D. B. Smith, arrived at this port from Barbadoes,
whence she sailed on the 5th, we have received files
of Barbadoes papers to that date. ,

The Islands generally continued quiet, but the LA-
sottsas were very lazy, and not inclined to work
when they could avoid it.

These papers give us an account ofa. most dread-
ful and destructive hurricane, which occurred on the
night of the 20th September, on the Island of Do-
minica. The works on two.thirds of the principal
sugar estates were levelled to the ground, the canes
blown flat to the earth, and in many instances buried
in the mud and blown from the soil; every descrip-
tion of provisions aboveground completely swept a-
way, and the face of the country, which exhibited
before the utmost luxuriance of vegetation, changed.
to the appearance of a general conflagration having
passed over it. There are not 50,000 feet of lumber
in the island, nor100,000 shingles. Every vessel
that was in the roads at the time shared the , same
fate, viz: the sloops Dolphin and Antelope, and a
small sloop from Montserrat. An American schoo.
ner was driven on shore, bottom up, on the south end
of the Island, and opposite to Martinique. The of-
fices, barracks and Hospital at Mornc Bruce, are
mostly blown down, and those standing, in such a
dilapidated state as to make them unsafe to occupy.
Every building on the garrison has either been crush.
ed to ruins or has suffered considerably-——the spacious
Hospital, lately built on an improved plan, has been
partly unroofed, and the Barrack Master's and Adju-
tant’s offices have been entirely destroyed, and it was
with great difliculty that the troops escaped with-
out loss of life. The left side of the Govern:
ment House was blown down, and the other parts of
the building partially damaged. The office of the
Auxiliary Commissioners ofCompensation, adjoining
those premises, has been materially injured, and a
great many of their original documents destroycd.~—
The new Commissariat building—the Custom-House,
the Court-Housc—Market-House—ths Jail, and the
Protestant Church, and almost every other building
in town, have suffered considerable injury from the
effects of the hurricane. The Mercantile Houses of
Messrs. Thomas Laiug &. Co., Messrs. James Gar-
raway &. Co., and Thomas W. Doyle, Esq. on ac.
count of their proximity to sea, have also experienct d
most heavy losses.

Throughout the whole island, and on every estate,
the most dreadful destruction took place, the full ac-
count of which would fill a column. -

The northern part of Martinique has sufferetl ss-
verely, and many vessels have been lost. St. Pierre
did not escape, and considerable loss has been sus-
tained ut Fort Royal. ‘ .

Great fears were entertained that the people of
Dominica would suffer for the want of food, and
measures were taken at Barbadoes and elsewhere to
send supplies to the suffering inhabitants.

All accounts go to show that this has been one of
the most destructive hurricanes cver experienced in
the West Indies.

 

SUIVIDIARY.
LITERARY NOT1CE.—-It isfwith satisfaction we an.
nounce that John P. Haven, 148 Nassau street, has
in press, and will publish soon, A Sketch of Chinese
History, ancient and modern: comprising a retrospr-ct
of the foreign intercourse and trade with China, il.
lustrated by a new and corrected map of the Empire,

by the Rev. Cnsnms GUTZLAFF, now and for many