Phenix Gazette

FROM COLOMBIA.

We have received files of El Colombiano, of Caraccas, down to the 19th of April inclusive. They contain advices from Bogota to the 19th of March.

A law has passed the Congress prohibiting persons of either sex from dedicating themselves to a monastic life, until they have attained the age of twenty-five years.

Doctor Jose Maria Salazar, Estanislao Vergara, Jose Fernandes Salvador, and Francisco Cuevas, have been named by the Senate, Ministers of the High Court of Justice of the Republic.

The Executive has nominated Colonel Leandro Palacio, the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Brazil; and Sir Alexander Velos, of the province of Antioquia, to succeed this gentleman as our Consul General in the United States.

We learn also by these papers, that his Excellency the Liberator, was in Chuquisaca, in the Republic of Bolivar, on the 11th of November last.

The Editor of El Colombiano says, "We read in the Gaceta de Colombia, a law passed by Congress decreeing that all debts contracted by the Republic in behalf of the Peruvian war, shall be paid with the first foreign funds we may command. We really do not understand on what principle this distinction be made: or why debts last contracted, should be paid first. Debts contracted for a Peruvian war, whilst those contracted in behalf of Colombian Independence remain still unpaid."

The revenue of Colombia last year, amounted to $6,196,725; and the expenses of the army and navy alone, to $11,794,596—nearly double the revenue.
[N. Y. Com. Adv.