Letters from Algiers represent the French blockade as very in-
efficient. The French commerce is suffering from the facility with which the cruisers of the Dey sail and return. Colonel Fabvier, the Philhellene, landed al Toulon from Greece, on the 3d current.
The French Minister of the Interior has recently sent silver medals to several physicians in provincial towns who have been active in propagating vaccination. The Irish Catholic prelates, Doctors Doyle and Murray, are at present in Paris.
A letter from Bourdeaux, announces the establishment of the Catholic rent in that city. A resident treasurer has been appointed, who is authorized to open a correspondence with the Association in Dublin, and to transmit subscriptions. The King of the Netherlands evinces a great desire to have his navy strengthened and made efficient, and his seaports in a perfect state of defence.
Letters from Madrid, of the 4th instant, state that several new bands of the Ultra-Royalists have been formed in Catalonia, under two priests named Punal and Carajol. In consequence of this circumstance, the Spanish troops who were about to return from Barcelona to Madrid have had their orders countermanded. It was generally believed in Madrid that these bands have a close connexion with the partisans of Don Miguel, and that they are paid by a fund provided by the clergy of both countries. The evacuation of Cadiz by the French troops is now complete. The last division of the garrison marched out on the 26th of Sep- tember. Part of the sick, and of the materiel of the army, has arrived at Brest.
The bulletin of the sanitary state of Gibraltar presented on the 25th the following results :—On the 20th there were 210 sick. On the 21st, 22nd, 23rd, and 24th, the contagion attacked 231 persons, which formed a total of 441 sick. Between the 21st and the 24th, 40 persons died, and 83 recovered. On the 25th the number of sick was 312.
A letter from Madrid, of the 23rd ultimo, mentions that the fever had broken out in the South of Spain. At Madrid, and throughout Spain, says the writer, there is a drought such as we have never before experienced; many springs and fountains are dried up. The heat has been less violent than in preceding years. It is also said, in a letter from Bayonne, that the yellow fever has appeared at Seville. In consequence of the fever at Gibraltar, the Senate of Ham- burgh have resolved that no vessel coming from that quarter shall be admitted into the Elbe. Vessels from the south coast of Spain and Portugal are to be liable to quarantine. The Bank at Berlin, after squandering its discounts and accom- modations with a profuse hand, is contracting its business hastily, in the manner of bankers, and with the usual distressing conse- quences. A letter from Moscow, dated the,7th September, gives a bad account of the situation of the nobility. " With the exception of about twenty farnilies,:which possess immense riches, the proprietors are in a state of the greatest poverty, and scarcely a week passes without judicial sales of the finest lands at prices far beneath their value."
Letters from Alexandria report that, agreeably to the conven- tion made with the Viceroy by Admiral Codrington, the Egyptians were to be allowed to provision the fortresses in the Morea for se- veral months, before they were yielded by Ibrahim to the Turks. It is said in a French paper, that the convention concluded between Admiral Codrington and the Paella of Egypt, had been the subject of important negotiations between the ambassadors of the three powers. It is asserted that Count Guilleminot has strongly dis- approved of the manner in which that treaty was concluded. A letter from Alexandria mentions, that many of the liberated Greek slaves were so satisfied with their treatment, that they had expressed a wish to remain if the Paella would employ them.
According to recent accounts from Upper Canada, the wheat harvest had failed, and the crop of oats was but indifferent. A malignant fever prevailed in the province, of which a number of persons had died. Some of the troops were on the hospital list.
Accounts from St. Thomas's mention the capture of the pirate ship Las Daunts Argentinas, by his Majesly's ship Victor. This pirate has committed great excesses off Teneriffe : she captured the Caraboo from Liverpool to Buenos Ayres, the crew of which was reported to be all put to death, but there is every probability of their having been landed in safety on one of the Western Islands —at least one of the prisoners on board the pirate mentioned the circumstance. The pirate is a vessel of only ninety tons, armed with one 18-pounder, and arms for seventy men. The crew on board, consisting of forty men, have been safely secured in gaol.
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