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Advertisements als..) must have a reference or remictaucc, Money Orders to be made payable to Mr. ALVAAD lva,llo Strea4 London. :1 ,•.,1 -~~ ~ ~ rtoo+ LONDON, SATURDAY. JULY 28, 1836. POSTSCRIPT. THE INSURRECTION IN SPAIN. A despatch from Paris, Friday, July 25th, nine a.m., states : Advices from Bayonne of the 24th inst. state that accor ling to a letter from Saragossa, dated the 20th inst., General Falcon had held a review of 16,000 men. A battalion of Royalists, which had left Tudela, revolted on arriving near the town, and joined the insurgents. The Customhouse officials did the same. fifteen thousand militiamen or peasants, coming from Quince►, were advancing to join the Arragonese. The frontier of Navarre is tranquil. Intelligence from Barcelona states : On the 23rd. at eight a.m., the troops were masters of eery point at Barcelona, b•it still remained under arms. The struggle was very sanguinary. Preparations were being made for executing the persons who were taken with arms in their hands. General Ruiz commands the garrison at Gerona, which has risen. The Gazette de Savoie confirms the statement of the Opinione, that Marshal Canrobert is expected to visit Turin. On Sunday last, at Aix, the band of the Novara light horse gave the Marshal a serenade ; and on Saturday, the day of his arrival, two-thirds of the garrison of Chambery came to pay him a military visit. A letter from Berlin of the 21st, in the Digai • says : IC de Titeff, lately Minister of Russia, at Stutgard, has Bjust passed through this city. Lie is pr oceet !i ng to B a d en . aden to take leave of the King of Wurtemburg, who hap pens to be there at present. M. de Titoffs successor is General de Benkerdoff. UThe Journal de Constantinople of the 14th inst. says The Russian flag floats on Sebastopol since the Bth inst. Kamiesch is deserted. General Sir W. Codrington embarked on the Bth in the Algiers, commanded by his brother, with the intention of visiting Odessa, Kinburn, and other points on the coast of the Black Sea. The evacuation of Balaklava is complete. The Russians will take possession of it immediately after the embarkation of the 34th and 56th Regiments of the line. --- Count Walewski was at Baden-Baden on Tuesday (on his return from Hombourg), and had an inter view there with Count de Morny. General Beatson's affair has terminated. The morning after the debate (22nd) the gallant general received the following letter from the War-office : War Department, July 23, 1858. Sir,—l am directed by Lord Panmure to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 4th instant, relative to allegations which have been made regarding your conduct in giving over the command of the Osmanli Irregular Cavalry at the Dardanelles, and to acquaint you, that after a careful consideration of all the circumstances brought under his notice, including the evidence contained in the annexed papers, his lordship does not feel called upon to adopt further proceedings in the matter. For although the preliminary inquiry affords some grounds for ques tioning your readiness to hand over the force to Lieut.- G•neral Vivian, on your resignation of the command, his for lship finds no evidence in proof of an intention on your peat° disobey lawful orders, and he, therefore, ftA t ly °aerates you from any inch charge. :• I am sir, yo ur o b . oo% t 51?edgisairvail2. (6 ) • KAM THE PRESS. HOUSE OF LORDS-F/UDW. Lord WENSLETDALZ took the oaths and his seat, being introduced by the Duke of Argyll and Lord Lyndhurst. HAMPSTEAD HEATH. The Commons' amendments to the Leases and Sales of Settled Estates Bill having been brought up for consideration, Lord RF.DESDALE moved that the amendment de signed to prevent the inclosure of Hampstead-heath should be disallowed. On a division, there appeared—Contents 17, Non- Contents 17. The effect is, to reject the amendment introduced in the House of Commons. Various bills having been advanced through a siege of progress, their lordships, at a quarter past seven o'clock, adjourned to twelve this day (Satur day). HOUSE OF colinoxs.,--ywAy. NEW New writs were ordered to issue for Lne county of Kerry, in the room of t Ord tfristleroiab, *ho had been appointed Comptroller of her Majestts HONS.- hold ; and for the borough of Nottingham,, wbohe late representative, Mr. Strutt, had accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. ,41.1 .11 clut i t ith e • f t w io neer Lytle (10111 • Replyityrtle Mr: Levant,' - 's' h !" s' 1 ""f ord PALMERSTON stated that no further proceed, ings were to be instituted on the cuttie,c,t of the Cri mean inquiry. ;/ Irr.t SEES OF LONDON AND Mt The Bishops of London and DUrti 11111 was read a third time and passed.'' THE COStUCT nir TifeHESSrON. Mr. DisRAELI, in moving for a return of all bills that had been withdrawn daring the course of the present SeAsion, called attention to the mode in which her Maiestys Ministers had 'conducted public business in Parliament since the house met in February last. Hediscl aimed ail party motives and objects, wish • ing merely to elicit opinions or throw out suggestions which might prove useful hereafter. Referring to the experience of former y ars, he remarked that some previons sessions had proved long and resultless in a legislative point of view. Various excuses ' Vett offered for this abortive conclusion, which was at tributed to the form of debate, the prolixity of speeches, and the multitude of speakers in that house. He did not then concur in that opinion, nor did he concur now, when at the close of another session an equally negative issue became apparent. Mr. Disraeli then examined the nature of the func tions which a Prime Minister was called upon to perform in Parliament, and described the conditions under which he would be exonerated from the duty of framing and passing intportant measures. These, he said, were three : —either if no new bills were wanted ; if the country were engaged in war.; or, if, i i during peace, delicnta negotiations were proceeding for the purpose of; avoiding hostilities with other countries, and with the necessary effect of absorbing the attention, of the Mibistry. Neither of these three conditions, be remarked, now existed, and the Government themselves had abandoned . telly such pleas for inaction by introducing a iireate• number of new bills and ventilating masa= portant and novel questio ns ti tan . i n any sates„ for many years past. The .4104;•hon. member. then catalogued the long seriee,,of bills which had beeu brought in, discus s ed, and. finally abandoned, within the past six months, and traced the efforts that were made towards accomplishing the fourfold. object, namely—the assimilation of the mercantile law of England and Scotland ; the new law of partnership ; the abolition of passing tolls ; and law reform—which were indicated in the Royal Speech at the assembling of Parliament. On many of these subjects be gave the Government credit for possess ing much energy, attributing their ultimate and con. stant failures to their ill-luck, and remarked that with regard to several bills they had been forced to s u b m it to a double, or even triple, ordeal of abandonment. Pursuing his catalogue, Mr. Disraeli adverted in succession to a variety of other bills that were intro duced and abandoned, or questions mooted without practical result. To balance this long list of failures, the Government hat only two successes to show— the Bishops' Retirement Bill, which, he observed, being a special, and not 4 general measure, opened a serious question, but left it unsettled; and the Police 8111. For the cause of this disappointing result he assigned the fact that the present Ministry could not command a parliamentary majority. The consequences were injurious in many respects. The. Government became accustomed to defeat, and, never feeling sure of carrying their bills, ceased to take the trouble, of shaping th em p roper l y . Th ey had also ,abused,,,their privile ge , and coerted. ppm larity by, teueblitg ppon a i large number pg•reeSiitn, portael, fotesticins it witho ~isitVet the, ;power, f eet f the 1 intention t 9 do* with . 1 41 • e ff ectrutaiPielit 8 5 0164 I T s that the Refoian Act had : eitroyed thi naterl s al 5 of SATtIDDAY; distinctive parties or compact majorities, and repu diated the allegation that party ties had been severed or party principles become obliterated. In the country and in the house he found broad lines of demarcation, separating society into two great and well defined classes, whose several opinions on all the chief topics of home and foreign policy he proceeded to describe, sketching on all points the principles entertained and course advocated by the great Con servative party. On the opposite side he saw no such unity of opinion as entitled them to then aRe . cocaparty, party, observing that even the Prime M s , tee disclaimed many of the principles oral ly itlen.;' l l tified with Liberalism. How ' he asked, could the . , Liberal party exist under such circumstances ? the Conservatives he would say, do not lose, heart; • the present system continues, the Liberal party,will ; thrown back at least fifty years, for nothing squid long ; sustain the deleterious influences t, which ihey were: now °mewl as regards the continued pesacssion of power,,, .7; I i Lord row attributed Mr. Disraeli's apeickij chieflycl a desire to sow dissension , among that members aE *he Liberal party.. That attempt, he;) believed, *curd prove utterly nugatory. Respecting, t the failure in passing legislative measures, b e denied,a both that the result was discreditable to the house, or had caused disappointment among the publie.,l The cause arose from the perfect freedom of dise,', cussion, and the extreene tinxiety of Parliament to render the bills which they passed as perfect as pos sible. In many respects the consequences were beneficial, and it was at all times preferable that important questions should be postponed for another year, rather than legislated upon without due deli beration. Claiming for the house generally the credit of having diligently and faithfully fulfilled its legislative duties, and on behalf of the Government declared that they had in no way neglected the very limited opportunities afforded them by the forms of Parliament for advancing the measures which they had sintroduced. On this point the noble lord remarked, that during the session there had been &Ly nne of what were called " Government nights," out of which twenty were oectipied with supplies ; some others were taken up with motions iovolving votes of censure; so that only twenty-two were really left open for the discussion of, Ministerial bills. Observing that upon all occasions Trhen their policy had been called into question the. Government were supported by large majorities, Lord Palmerston referred to the important duties arising oat of the war, and the nego tiations which closed and succeeded it ; and submitted that, notwithstanding the ill-success that hen attended many of their propositions, her Majesty's Ministers had not forfeited the confidence of the heuee or the eountry. , Mr. M. GisSox blamed the Government for evinc ing too much readiness to surrender their bills before a slight show of opposition. He thought the house also blameable for their disregard of economy. 'Aher a few words from Mr. Napier, Mr. Mowbray, Itik.'ilkinson, Mr. Hadfield, and Mr. Baines, the isitattlii was agreed to. The house adjourned at nine o'clock to noon to. d ay .l 7 )ll/ 1), I .((' SOCIAL AMENITIES nt THE UNITES) 9TIIEs. , Melt B. Pleasants, a brother of the lite , John Hampden! IPleasents, and Avineri); editor of the Penny Post, or this city, went this Mettring into the Executive Chars- 4 4* a the Capitol of Virginia, where Governor Wise was engaged writing, and, taking a seat by invitation of the Governor, said, after a brief period, "I thought Gizzard foot' was here.'. . ; governor Wise smilingly replied, "I am the insole tPlesmatits, rising from his seat and approaching the table at which the Gover ner sat, said, "By -! I did not know you ; and so you are 'Ebo Shin and Gizzard-foot? " " I am," remarked Governor Wise with a smile; "and you are Hugh Pleastmts." Pleasants thereupon commenced abusing the Governor without any provocation what ever, when the Governor ordered him to leave the room, hut he refused to do so. The Governor then rose from his seat, approached Pheasants, and taking hold of him endeavoured to push him out. Pleasants resisted, squared off, and placed himself in an atti tude to strike, when the Governor struck bin' . with his fist under the left eyo and out him severely., He then 'seized him by the arm, tinned him ro.and kicked him out. At this ti m e th e messenge r the Executive came up and had him removed by order of the Governor. It is said that PleaSents. was intoxicated. The Knownothinge of theft city ar e very indignant shunt the 0644.0,-New Yak, 1411111144 of Commerce. ~) 1 ,;..( 1040 ~d 4 1 7 76 [...):1 JOHN Hoonen,,Agreger n in Tyler-stave% Repul. street, was fitted 501.,.;seTWisdnesdayby Afr. Henry at Bow street, for segos Adatlidrated pepper. The analytical chemistartAtlthe Excise, Commissioners tested a sample ef:popper bought from Hud4art's shop, wad found itpt* contain forty pea cent, cff riee, ten per cent. of hard wood, and omAy Afty rig Pelii; of genuine pepper. thi„