••• 4.• • tiIE NATIONAL REGISTER._ 510 - . , PRICE OF Ste KS YtSTEnIiAY. S per i7ent. Coo; a7ll Quinium 21,1 em. F:vebecoer M ils 14 p COor for May 6l i4B - THE NATIONAL REGISTER. suNbAt, MAY 41, 1914: TERMS OF PEACE. j ibe following is from private leiter received yes- 4 e j'Anis, MAY 18. dil send you the ildlowing ste.tch Of the torus with France : id trance,, such as she was in 1792, with an addition of territory of 6 or 700,000 souls upon the signing of the definitive treaty. "lo of Bourbon, and two establishments on the Coast of totomaiidel and Malabar; with a prohibition to erect forts: St. 1/Oiningo to be restored and another Island. " Half the sh po and naval •atored at AntlheiP, Geneva, and lfcniee. • .• . . di France t 6 have a FilenipOtentiary at the Congress for aettling the affairs Of Germany and Italy: 14 France to keep up an effective arm . y of 230,000 them MAY 22. AMERICA. In America the late events . Of Europe have already beguis to operate a change. The Non-importation Act seems to have been given up by Matliion; and the. manufactures of England are about to be re-admitted into the United - States. We are glad to find that among the first importations, they are likely to lidie an abundant supply of bayonets. Twelve thousand of The conquerors of Spain are under oilers to pro ceed to America: We trust the chasiisement prepared for the Yankies, on this occasion, will deter them from again' 4Vantinfly provokinc , hostilities. A contemptible c faction at honie would tell us, that as the causes of the war with America are removed, the war should tcrmina.e. A pretty patriotic doctrine this. The war writ caused by devotedness to Buonaparte, and because he is gone. we are net to call America to account for her unprincipled hostility ! Naw we are. able to argue the question with ef fect, we are to drop the subject, or reserve the discussion of it till some future period when our Rands may be again full, and when America, finm, bCi>hg sufiertd, this time to escape , with impunity, may think it a safe experiment to begin ano ther pg'ensirc wet. Sound policy this! But we cannot say we admire it so Much as to wish to see it acted upon by our Government. We wish the question at issue to be finally I set at rest now, and so put, at rest that America, from her present humiliation, may, for the time to come, cherish a salutary dread of what may be the conserpence of a war with, Great Britain. PAPERS. t Pails Papers to die 18th inst. arrived on Friday. The Moniteur. contains Several very important drieuments,among which is a Proclaintion by the Mipisters of War and of the Interior, addressed to the National Guards, who are highly complimented for their loyaltlr,.and infortnetl that Monsieur is appointed Colonel-General of all the armed citizens of the kingdom. In this ProelamatiOn allusion is made to rcent di,ttirbances; and a sort of iniiination is given ihdt the King relics ,principally on theni for the _maintenance of order against the efforts Of the agitators. A new Organization of the al my his been determined on ;* ati order of the day friim tl:e War Department discos all ofteerg, to join their respee• ti.t . e corps . withriiit delay; in order to obtain either their eon t:puatioo iF actice'service, the perseverance or their full ap rointments, or the enjoyment Of half pay, according to cli cum . itanoes ; and. fur: her directs, that every officer, who, Nvithout . :eN press peintision, should remain it Paris eight daySafter the publication of this order, shoUld be considered hai4 renounced his right: . A tax to the amount of 6,000,000 franc , , kin the nature Of a loan, to be ultimwely iepaid) has been impo'sed on - the inhabitants of Paris, for the piirpose of supplying the armies in and near ParN with pro-, tvisions.. ,. . A 'circular has been publiShed by the Department of Finance; for the purpose of Making it known that the proltibaion on tLe iinports of manufactured goods are con tinued. Ca.neriil Bertrand has written from Porto Ferrajo td.Pariii stating,' that On the 4th he liad arrived at the Isle of Elba with Buonap'afte, where it appears ihejr were m o re favourably received than they expeCted The rumour of 'Napoleon having sailed for Gibraltar must therefore have been incorrect. By a second Military Convention in Italy, Idantui; Peschira, and Other fortresses have been given tip 10 the Austrians, and the Milailese and the rest of the king dom ~f have beeti occapied bv the Austrians iti the name of t h e A 1,1...ied Powers. Private letters stale, as the rkt mouti of the"fruncli that spine dAlluerces have taken Place 1,-;:tweeo the . .Allied . }..jovereiO's and the King of e. l'lntuse of 'this differeira... is alf6;erl to have arisen froin a iv op 3 6kal to cede to Be!gturo ite.l4.(iit!icy fortresses of Maubege, Vitleticienitei; and Dodayi ' and France to be • iucteturi6ed in some' ther palter. . • -=~~ Dutch Papers Of Wednesday's date arrivellop Friday night., An article, dated Leyden, the 16th, states, upon the atitho tity of accounts from Copenbagen4 that the. etahnsiasm of the Norwegians is at the highest pitch, and that an army of 66,6000 volUnteers have marched to the frontier, the. g' ewer part of which Prince Christian has, sent biek as unnecessary. The enthusiasm of Sweden is, also great ; 15,000 men are under General Essen upon the frontiers, but so late as the. 29th of April no hostilities bad taken place. Sweden is to fit out seven ships of the line and several frigates, as well as. a considerablearmy, against Norway. The Crown Prince is expected at Stockholm. DILL Ft 01: THE REPEAL OF THE FIFTH OF.ELIZA BETH. Mr. Serjeant Onslow's Bill for repealing the fifth of Eliza beth, which was read a second time more than a week ago,. will go to a COMMittee early in the ensuing week. This measure would have been of no moment at ail. but for the foolish efforts which have, been made to enforce and to ex tend the. provisions of fhe Statnte by indiViduals, who but ill understood the general interests of trade, or who preferred: :I selfish andmomentary advantage to those perrhanent bene fits which generally result from a liberal add enlightened policy . It was stated in the llotisc, that some hundreds of thou sands of persons had petitioned againSt the repeal of the Act. q the truth of this assertion we entertain no doubt. It, is: probable that those with whom these petitions originate, think they do but protect . their rights, in exerting them seives to prevent the proposed alteration in the law. It is very natural for mon who have been apprenticed to the trades which they exercise, to feel aggrieved at the pro pos,c!d, repeal of the Act of Eli;tltheth. A . man, Wlio, has la.; boitred, for another for seven years, must at all times feel it hard. that he should derive little or tin.betiefit from his long sen'ttitoe, tut more especially must he think he has a right to coiiiplOin in times of great distress, like these we have jo,A witnessedi' when he finds his scanty earnings made still - .1 It°