Alexandria Daily Advertiser

Letters received yesterday from the Havana state an important occurrence, in the modern spirit of revolutionary measures—the almost entire suppression of the monastic and religious orders in that island, and which of course will not be confined to that colony. A royal order has lately been received there for the sale of all property belonging to those religious establishments; consisting of houses and lands, sugar and coffee estates, and negroes, as well as mortgages, debts, &c. due to them. The monies arising therefrom are to be paid into the treasury of the king, who will provide for the persons so dispossessed, by paying them a certain allowance per diem for their support. The revenue arising therefrom must, doubtless, be immense; and the purposes to which it is to be applied, and the source to which this serious innovation may be traced, do not require the gift of divination to ascertain. It may, perhaps, be considered as only a preliminary step to more serious changes in the Spanish government and nation.

The commissioners nominated to enforce the aforesaid decree in the Havana, and the island, are—the Governor, the Bishop, the Intendant General, the Collector of the Customs, and Don J. B. Munoz.

[Daily Gaz.]