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n pursuance of orders received from General Evans, move acme guns to a certain position. The Right Hon. Gentleman stated that this was done in obedience to the orders of Ge neral Evans. He would not say that this might not, strictly speaking, be the case ; but he would say, that in no accounts which had reached the Government had such circumstance been admitted. It was his firm conviction that neither upon this nor any other occasion had there been any order trans mitted or given to a single officer, or to 'any of the men of the British force. Such was his conviction, which was de rived from the reports of our own officers employed in that service. He derived his information from the reports of an officer on the coast, and an officer on General Evans's staff, who expressed their belief to the same effect, that though un doubtedly troops were removed by order of our own officers, it was done at the request only of General Evans.—( Hear, hear, from the Opposition benches.) Why, Honourable Gen tlemen seemed to think that the admission of what he had stated, that no order had in any case been given by General Evans, or any officer in the service of the Queen of Spain, to any of the British co-operative body, militated against his ar gument. But, on the other hand, did Hon. Members suppose that when two bodies of men were co-operating together, the one was not to act at the request of the other ? That was to say, that between two persons acting for one common purpose, there was to be no arrangement. It might be the opinion of Hon. Gentlemen opposite, that two persons, to obtain a com mon object, should go different ways to work. But, so far as be understood the meaning of the word " co-operation," it consisted in two parties being in formal communication, and acting with and in concert with each other. What, then, had been the mode pf operations carried on on the north coast of Spain ? He had distinctly stated that the Royal Marines, and be believed the Artillery, engaged were not under the orders of General Evans in any degree whatever. He stated this dis tinctly, and his account of the operations had been transmitted by Lord Hay, not yet printed. The Right Hon. Gentleman bad said that the Marines advanced seven miles into the inte rior of the country, whereas the utmost distance they could have gone did not exceed three miles from the sea. It might, perhaps, be said they were marched fifty miles, because they were fifty miles from Santander. But the point from the ships to where the troops were to be landed at St. Sebastian came, and where the steamers were lying for them, was not more from their ships than three miles. But, as he had before said, whether it was a distance of three miles, of four, or of seven, it seemed to him not to be a matter of importanee, and when he came to read the documents which he held in his hand, he thought the House would be of opinion that under no circum stances had this case of co-operation exceeded that which had been resorted to on former occasions in respect to naval co operation. The first instance was that in which the Turkish army co-operated with the British troops under the command of Sir Sidney Smith, who did not confine himself to the mere defence of Acre, but having advanced with a body of seamen and marines, combined with a number of the advanced guard of the Vizier, was occupied for not less than three or four days marching across the desert ; and to prove that these seamen and marines were engaged in military operations, the House would allow him to read the concluding paragraph in the dis patch :—" A detachment of marines under Colonel Douglas, Lieut.- Colonel Bromley, Captains Winter and Trotte, and Mr. Thos. Smith, midshipman of the Tigre, accompanied an Advanced boty of the army of the Grand Vizier from Gaza to El Arish. The cheerful manner in which the detachment f r om the British squadron performed their duty, exposed as they were on the desert without tents, very ill fed, and with only brackish water to drink, gained them the admiration of tin! whole Ottoman army." He would now take the liberty ,of quoting zrother case, which must be familiar. The case k,e alluded to was that of the co-operation of the squadron esn2,se Admiral Lord Nelson with the Italian force for the rel l ief of Naples, where an Honourable and Gallant Friend of i s vvon his proud honours. This was the dispatch to which be referred the House : Foudroyant, Naples Bay, July d 3, 1779. . . My Lord—Captains Troubridge and Hallowell, with 1,000 of the best men landed from the squadron, united with 4,000 other troops of various denominations, march against .Capun to-morrow morning. " I have, &c., ( Signed) " NELSON. , . -" Right Honourable Lord Keith, K. B." Nese '.here were Honourable Gentlemen present who, from their local knowledge, must know that the march from N ap t e g Ray to Capua could not be less than eighteen or twenty mies. If operations of naval force were to he restric,ed to the shores of the sea, how would these transac:iens occur iu whish so many officers had earned such well-merited honours ? The nuestion of the Right Hon. Gentleman v. as this—not whet - her we were at war or peace, but whether thee the seamen and rrtsrines were employed at an undue dis tance from the sea. The real question, hoe ever, at issue was, whether, under the articles contained in the Quadripartite Tri , ..tty we were bound to employ a naval force, and whether ;.he country had in any degree exceeded the proper limits. But the experience of former times showed that this country had only done that which she had always been in the }edit of pr.-forming. He would mention one more case in illustra ti.m of his argument, a case in which we had co-operated \vitt' the Spanish on the very coast of Spain, in which a part of our force was now employed. The following was the do cument which bore on this case :—" Captain West sailed from the citadel of Rosas at the head of Tee seamen and ma rhiee.of the Excellent, but were obliged, after succeeding in their object of rescuing the Mequelits, by the superior force of the French, especially in cavalry, to retire. Capt. West bail a horse shot under him." Hut the co-operation of land and naval forces bad all along been the practice of the service; and ha particularly requested the attention of the House to an application of Lord Hood for a portion of land forces to co-operate with him on board the fleet in the attack on Toulon. The application was acceded to ; a portion of the land forces were sent on board, and co-operated with the naval force in the capture of the town. The following extract described the event to which he referred :—" The Major-General still declining to act, until the, arrival of an expected reinforcement 0f2,000 men from Gibraltar, Lord Hood took on board that proportion of land forces which had originally been ordered to serve on board the fleet as marines ; and obtaining also two officers and twenty privates of artillery, with some ordnance stores and in trenchment tools, under command of Captain Wilson, who bad acquired from the army the title of brigadier, took the -town after a long siege." If that was the case in former times, he did not see what blame could be attached to Lord J. Hay or the Government for adopting similar practices with regard to Spain.—( Hear, hear.) He wished to know—looking at the instances of co-operation which had been adduced— what was the amount of co-operation the Spaniards had a right to expect according to the terms of the treaty. All the Spanish officers--most of the Spanish statesmen—nay, many of the soldiers, knew that they had a right to expect assistance, because they had been witnesses of what had taken place, and had fought side by side with seamen when they were acting, as now, against the common enemy. Having received assistance before, they conceived that they bad a right to receive it again ; and what would have been the feelings of British officers, if it had been im posed on them as a duty to refuse aid when the Spaniards demanded, and had a right to expect it? After the examples which he had quoted, he trusted the House would be ready and willing to believe that it had been the practice of the service. The Right Hon. and Gallant Officer had stated that the circumstance to which he had alluded was the first in stance in which naval forces had been so employed on land. Now he would venture to say that no officer of the navy would, for one moment, concur in the statement. If any officer, how ever, would support the doctrine that the naval and marine forces were to be employed only on board ship in usual cases, still he should say, looking at the stipulations of the treaty, that he should have been sorry to see such a deep stain on the honour of the country as a refusal to render assistance, agree ably to the terms of the quadruple treaty. He should vote against the motion.—( Hear, hear.) Lord FRANCIS EGERTON would leave it to Hon. Gen tlemen opposite to say, whether the course which the Noble Lord opposite had pursued with regard to Spain, was either sanctioned by Lord Grey, or was consistent with his policy. He would contend that a contrary system was the policy, not only of Lord Grey, but, at a former time, of Hon Mem bers who were now in power. When the Foreign Enlist nent Bill came under discussion, in 1819, he knew it was nly a temporary measure, as an Honourable Member sug ested ; but if it was only temporary, then that was an sgument for the repeal of it. He would, however, to show hat was the opinion of a Noble Lord high in power, now :ad an extract from a speech made on the Foreign Enlist ,ent Bill in 1823. The Noble Lord to whom he alluded was lee a Member of that House, and he expressed himself to le following effect :—" With respect to the proposition be ,re the House, however, he begged to say, that neither upon ny general or particular ground was he prepared to vote for he repeal of the Foreign Enlistment Bill. He was aware iat, in former times, it had been the fashion for gentlemen chivalrosts character to make campaigns in the service of reign princes, and that bodies of men had been raised in this iuntry to assist the Palatine, or the Protestants of France al Holland; but the state of European politics was now tinged?" These were the words of a Member of the other cruse, who now sends men to Spain to get ribbons for ser .es performed under the measure he then condemned. These re the words of the Hon. William Lamb.—(Cheers.) And was at a loss to know what subsequent change had taken ce which could justify the Noble Viscount in departing m the principles which he advocated in 1823. He might Iress also to gentlemen opposite the words of one to whom y were accustomed to listen—a man from whose principles did not believe the Noble Lord would avow his departure le alluded to Mr. Canning. Mr. Canning, on that oc- , ion, expressed his opinion as to active interference in sin in the following words :—" So that here at least no y strong temptation is held out to induce the co-operation the military spirit, skill, and enterprise of this country in pport of the Spanish cause. I have also reason to form is opinion from a recollection of what took place on former d no very distant occasions. When the army of England t fought in Spain, they fought in favour of a united people inst a foreign and a common foe. How altered is the case present ! Who is there - who could wish to see Englishmen -.on entering the Spanish territory opposed not to the foes' of Spain, but directing their bayonets against Spanish bosoms ? Vs, I confess, is a sight which I would rather not witness." were our Marines directed against a common and a fo 'ln foe ?—( Hear, hear.) How different was the case now Ilk that to which Mr. Canning alluded? But it was con aed that, even independent of instructions, it was the duty Marines to render assistance, and that too in a dubious when no one could find out from the Noble Lord CaCe; we were at vl,ar or not.—( Cries of " Hear, h ear .") to ught such a line of policy was a cheat on the country, th "Ist naval co-operation had been sanctioned on a forced ma tuction of one of the articles of the treaty.—( Hear. ) case might have been made out, if only th e usua .} b y kment of 'Marines had been on board—the usual com nt, he believed, for each vessel was from thirty to forty ear the eal gre e h, but now that was raised to 400 Marines.—( Hear, hear, car.) If that was saactioned by the articles of the treaty, might not, on the same grounds, a battalion of the foot guards have been sent out ?—( Hear, hear.) As a civilian he could not take upon himself to criticise the military conduct of Gen. Evans. He believed he was as brave an officer as ever existed, and as to his skill, it was riot for him to detract from it in a case of misfortune to which any one was liable. Now Gen. Evans, it was natural to suppose, must be suffering under the late unexpected and painful discomfiture, and probably may attempt some desperate blow to retrieve the character of his men. Now were the British Marines to run their heads against every danger to accomplish an object for which he would risk his life? If General Evans, for instance, were to undertake the desperate and bloody enterprise of re-taking Oriamendi, or Hernani, were the British Marines to be employed in as sisting him ? These attacks might retrieve what the Legion had lost ; but would such a step, when the period of service whs nearly expired, contribute much to the great object which the Noble Lord had in view ? There could be no doubt now that both Gen. Evans and the Noble Lord had been ut terly deluded as to the prospects of the enterprise; they thought it was an enterprise easy and rapid, and that the general and his men were speedily to return to this country crowned with victory. Then it might ,become a question of some im portance what was to become of that army, disciplined in a hurry, fed by a Spanish commissariat, and paid by a Spanish treasury.—( Hear, hear.) The Noble Lord was bound to con sider what was the present situation of that force, and what was likely to be its condition on returning to this country. But for the loss of 700 men at Vittoria, and the further losses which had since diminished their numbers greatly, he pro- ' fessed himself at a loss to know what would have become of them. From what he knew of the condition of those indivi duals, he felt some doubt and difficulty as to what might be their condition on their return to this country. He thought that a consideration not to be omitted in the discussion of this question.--(Hear, hear, hear.) The Hon. Gentleman who spoke on the opposite side of the House had accused the supporters of the motion brought forward by the Gallant Officer (Sir H. Hardinge) of being the friends of Don Car los. He (Lord F. Egerton) did not rank himself amongst the friends of that individual. But when he found this country aiding in a desperate contest carried on against the pre tensions of Don Carlos, he thought he had a right to inquire into the justice of the canse we were supporting. —( Hear, hear, hear.) He wished this country to do every thing in its power to promote the establishment of a rational, a stable, and to be stable necessarily a strong Government in Spain.—( Hear, hear.) But he confessed he was not so de voted to the cause of the Constitution as to fancy that he saw in it the elements either of strength or stability. The Con stitution under Mendizabal appeared to him to be similar in almost every respect to that of 1821, which the French in 1823 I interfered to put down. On the 12th of January, 1836, Major Richardson wrote in these terms :—" The game is now nearly up with Don Carlos. From Pampeluna to Medina del Pomar the cordon has been established, which shuts him completely into the mountains ; and as we shall move slowly and gra dually on, driving them before us, Estella, Durango, and what few other places of any strength they at present hold must of necessity fall into our hands, until, in the end, they will not have a single roof under which to shelter themselves, or a depot whence to draw their supplies." Very slow and gra dual indeed had been the progress of the British arms to wards the accomplishment of the anticipated end.--( Hear, hear, hear.) The Carlists had still their strong towns in which to shelter themselves, and their mountain depots whence to draw their supplies.—( Hear, hear.) This letter of Major Richardson was written before the troops began to die at Vittoria. It was followed by another letter dated the 19th of January, only seven days afterwards, in which Aker Richardson says :—" This day the Spanish and English head quarters returned to Vittoria ; the several divisions of the combined army havinsr fallen back upon the villages they had previously occupied." (Opposition cheers.) He merely quoted these extracts to show how suddenly the sanguine anticipations even of experienced military men had been re versed in the course of this singular and disastrous warfare.— ( Hear, hear.) He confessed that this circumstance had created a strong feeling in Lis mind.—( Hear, hear.) Ile did not believe that the attempt to deprive the Spanish people of their peculiar priviliges would be successful. The tide of war might flow through their peaceful valleys, and overwhelming powers might for a while withhold from them that to which they were most strongly attached; but the time would as cer tinily come around when they would re-assert what they con ceived to be their rights, and when those who had interfered would find that their labour had been lost. Mr. O'CONN E L L thought that the Noble Lord stood in a position that might well be envied. He was not the friend of Don Carlos—oh, no ; nor a l as he the enemy of Don Carlos --he was only the enemy of the enemies of Don Carlos (Hear.) That was the position that the Noble Lord took in assailing the British Legion.—( Hear.) In the same way the Noble Lord was not friendly to the Orange faction in Ireland —(oh, oh)—but only the enemy of the enemies of that fac tion —( Renewed cries of " Oh," and " Hear, bear.") The Noble Lord was perfectly consistent; he refused to ameliorate the institutions of Ireland, and he protested against the ame lioration of the institutions of Spain.—( Hear, hear.) And the Noble Lord's ieformetion was ever/ way worthy of his consistency. He gave the House a long account of his con versations in France with the wandering deserters whom lie found there from Spain, and he told the House what severe censures those high authorities had passed upon the conduct of the Noble Lord the Secretary for Foreign Affairs.--( Loud laughter.) He (Mr. O'Connell) thought that the Noble Lord the Secretary for Foreign Affairs could really very well afford to put up with the censures of the men who had de serted from the Legion at St. Sebastian. The Noble Lord's (F. Egerton) next observation was upon the Foreign En listment Act. One would think that in discussing that Act, the right place to look for the principle of it would be in the debates of 1819, when the Act was passed. But the Noble Lord came to 1823 to ascertain the reason why the Act was passed in 1819.—( Hear, hear.) The British Legion now in Spain had had the misfortune to sustain a de feat. The Hon. Gentlemen opposite took every advantage of the mischance. The valour that the Legion had displayed on many previous occasions was totally forgotten, as well by the Gallant officer who brought the subject forward, as by all who had followed him on that side of the House.---( Hear, hear.) The many fights in which they had done honour to the Bri tish and Irish names were totally forgotten.—( Hear.) After two or three days of hard and gallant fighting they were at last defeated, and not a moment was lost by the Hon. Gen tlemen opposite in taking advantage of it.—( Hear.) The Noble Eord (Lord F. Egerton) told them that he believed General Evans, to whose courage he had paid a great tri bute, meditated some great blow to retrieve the honour of the British. Oh, if the House interfered to prevent the blow, let it not be upon the ground put forward by the Noble Lord that it would expose the corps of British marines to too much danger--( Hear, hear, hear.) Let it not be upon such a ground as that.—(Hear.) It had been said that there had been a cheat practised in the assistance fur nished to the Liberal cause in Spain. There were political cheats of another kind.—(Loud and long-continued cheering from the Opposition.) It recurred to him that there was a political cheat in the conduct of the Hon. Gentleman oppo site. They came forward under the pretence of neutrality, really and in truth to sustain the cause of a man whose cha racter was of that kind that few would acknowledge themselves his direct supporters.—( Hear, hear, hear.) It would have been well, he thought, if the Gallant Officer had reserved his observations until General Evans was present to answer for himself and his troops.—( Hear, hear.) No man knew better than his Gallant Friend how to defend himself. Fearless as the Gallant Officer (Sir H. Hardinge) opposite was, he (Mr. O'Connell) could not help remembering that in a former con. test in that house with General Evans the Gallant Officer had not the best of the argument.—( Hear, hear.) Therefore to attack that Gallant Friend of his (Mr. O'Connell) in his absence was not fair.—( Oh, oh.) Oh, to be sure, the Gallant Officer did not attack General Evans—he only showed that he had brought his troops into danger—( Hear, hear)—and that he bad allowed their pay to be refused them.—( Hear, hear.) If he had been commanding them, he' said, he would have them away at once, and would never have suffered them to be treated as they had been by the Spanish Govern ment.—(Hear, hear.) The Gallant Officer did indeed do justice to Don Carlos. He talked of the assassinating decree of Durango.—(Hear, bear.) Every body, he believed, called that an assassinating decree. Did it not follow that the man who issued an assassinating decree was an assassin ? He thought that the langunge used by the Hon. Gentleman oppo site upon that point was intended to be useful to Don Carlos. He looked upon it merely as a manoeuvre to benefit the Pre tender. Then it was said, out-popped the Eliot decree, and ' the cruelties began again. Did they commence with the British ? No. Did they commence upon the British ? No. They began with the friends of Don Carlos following up the example of their leader.—(oh, and hear.) The Gallant Officer (Sir H. Hardinge) bad told the House that he would not serve under any man who, on going out to the field of battle, told his soldiers not to spare an enemy. The order to which the Gallant Officer alluded amounted to this : that no quarters should be given. Had that never been done in the British service ? Did the Gallant Officer never hear of the order at Buenos Ayres ? Sir H. HARDINGE—No. Mr. O'CONNELL—Did the Gallant Officer never hear that the orders there were to spare the old men and the wo men and children, but to put to death every man capable of bearing arms? Sir H. HARDINGE—Never. Mr. O'CONNELL—I have a witness to the fact in the House.—[ Some confusion, in the midst of which one or two Members rose, but their observations were not heard in the gallery.] He (Mr. O'Connell) could not proceed amidst so many disorderly interruptions. He stated that he had been informed of the fact by an lion. Gentleman a Member of that House.--(0h1) He would give his authority ; of course he could not know the fact from his own knowledge.—(Cries of " Name, name I") His authority was Coloael Thompson, the Member for Hull.—( Cries of " Oh 1" and " Hear.) That was his authority. But he wanted to know whether no cruelties had been practised during the war in the Peninsula? Sir H. HARDINGE—There were certainly no such orders as those referred to.—( Order, order.) Mr. O'CONNELL—Had the Gallant Officer never heard of the orders at St. Sebastian ? Had the Gallant officer never read of the cruelties practised by the Spaniards when that town was taken ? Had he never heard of the cruelties at Ciudad Rodrigo and at Badajos? Were these things doubtful? But the Gallant Officer would not have British valour contaminated by an association with such cruelties as had taken place in the late hostilities in Spain.--( Hear, hear.) Did the Gallant Officer himself never associate with Spaniards during the Peninsular war, where cruelties upon a much larger scale were carried on by them 1—( Hear, hear.) He (Mr. O'Connell) would refer for a moment to a summary of the cruelties practised in the Peninsula, as contained in a pamphlet he held in his hand. Here the Hon, and Learned Gentleman read a passage from the work ; it was to this effect—" During the Peninsular war what was the universal system of the Allies but one of unmitigated cruelty ? Was not every straggling Frenchman assassinated? Were not the prisoners of war often, after capitulation, murdered in cold blood by the guerillas? Were not carriages of the wounded, and of women and children, waylaid and massacred ? Were not French soldiers roasted alive by the Spaniards ?" Yet they were now told by a Gallant Officer who distinguished himself— no man more so—in the Peninsular campaign, that he would not allow British soldiers to be contaminated by an associotion with men who could be guilty of such atrocities. These cru elties were one of the wretched consequences of war, but they ought not to be employed as a taunt against General Evans and the Legion.—( Hear.) But then General Evans was described as an adventurer, attacking a people with whom his nation was not at war; upon that point the example of the Black Prince had been quoted. But was England at war with France when the Black Prince adopted the quarrel of Peter the Cruel ?—( Hear.) After dwelling at some length upon this point, the Hon. and Learned Gentleman, addressing him self directly to the Opposition, said—You are on the side of despotism—on the side of him who, in the midst of this strug gle for a kingdom, has never deigned to hold out one word of hope for liberty in free institutions ; from whose lips the word of pardon never fell ; whose pen never put it upon paper ; who has never said one word of liberty or of constitutional privilege, but who insists on an absolute throne, on becoming an absolute monarch of a country once great—now plunged into misery, but which I hope—in spite of you and of Don Carlos— will get through the struggle, and prevent the liberties of her people from being crushed under the accumulated misfortune of a bold pretender to her throne backed by the - whole in terest and assistance of the holy alliance.—( Cheers.) But amidst all the taunts which the Opposition cast at his Ma jesty's Ministers, did they say one word of the treachery of Louis Philippe towards this country ?—( Hear, hear.) No ; on the contrary, they enjoyed the treachery of that mistaken and tyrannical man--they rejoiced at the consequences of his neglect of the treaties in which he had taken part. Through the faithless conduct of France the Carlists obtained supplies, so that if any deficiency of means for the desired objects in Spain appeared to exist, it was simply because other coun tries had not kept the faith of treaties, and had not acted up to their promises as England had. He was not there to defend the conduct of the Christine party, he had long condemned their cruelties, and ever should continue to do so. But he would ask this question, whether, if Don Carlos were to succeed, despotism would not be established, and the connec tion between Church and State perpetuated for ever, with all its horrible consequences, the hateful Inquisition amongst the number ? Dare Hon. Gentlemen opposite avow that they were for the establishment of the Inquisition and the domina tion of the Church in Spain ? No ; in the face of this nation they dare not avow such an intention, yet such was their inten tion.—( Hear.) Why, they were told that France was without a Government, awaiting- the issue of this question ; and why ? France was waiting to see the line of policy which the British Parliament would sanction in regard to Spain--whether despo tism was to be allowed to have its sway, or free institutions be vindicated and defended. And now it was, at such a juncture— at the very moment when General Evans was meditating an other blow in the cause which he had so gallantly taken up— that the opponents of freedom came down to interrupt the Ministry of this country with an attack of this sort.—( Hear, hear.) He had but one word more to say. The Gallant Officer opposite, in the course of his speech, had talked dispa ragingly of the 10th regiment, upon the authority of one Richardson, whose book was really two books; the one written when he was in favour with General Evans, and therefore all in his praise ; the other written after he had been dismissed the service, and, of course, all against him.—( A laugh. ) As for the 10th Regiment, he would just mention this fact, that this regiment only lost five men at Vittoria ; and for the Gal lant Officer, who commanded that regiment, he thought he might state it fearlessly as the highest trait that could be ad duced in his favour, that, although` his regiment was located in the quarters fullest of disease, his loss of men was the least of any. He (Mr. 0 Connell) knew that in what the Hon. and Gallant Officer opposite had said on this subject he did not state anything personally of the Gallant Officer who commanded this regiment ; but at the same time the Hon. and Gallant Officer had reported a story propounded by Richardson that the 10th Regiment was ready at one time - to go over to the Carlists. Now he would tell the Hon. and Gallant Officer, that lie had been misled, by his authority, and that it was impossible to give, in any language of courtesy, a more complete denial to any statement than that made by Richardson on this sub ject. Knowing the young officer of this regiment as lie (Mr. O'Connell) did—knowing bow little deserving of it he was, he must say that such an individual ought not to be suffered to be made the victim of calumnies such as he had exposed.—( hear.) Ile would not pursue this subject further. Ile would again repeat that the contest now going on in Spain was one between freedom and unmixed tyranny ; it was the same contest as was at this moment going on upon this very floor.—( Hear.) The question was whether the power of one or of the many should prevail—whether despotism or free institutions should exist ; this, and this .only, was the question in contention between the Carlists and the Christinos of Spain.—( Cheers.) Sir H. HARDINGE rose to explain. So far from his having made or intended any attack upon Col. O'Connell of the 10th Regiment, he had simply repeated a statement which he had read verbatim, and for which he had given his authority. Neither did Mr. Richardson himself make any at tack on Col. O'Connell ; on the contrary, he gave him great credit for his conduct, and stated that the insubordination iu his regiment arose from the absence of their Colonel. Mr. - O'C ONNE LL should he sorry to receive praise from such a quarter as Mr. Richardson's. If he was not mistaken, all the officers of his Regiment refused to mess with him. — (Cries of " Adjourn.") Colonel THO.MPSON rose to say a few words in explana ' tion, having been personally referred to in the course of the speech of the Hon. and Learned Member for Kilkenny. There was certainly no mistake in the statement made by the Hon. and Learned Member in reference to the order given at Buenos Ayres. He (Colonel Thompson) himself heard the order given which was mentioned by the Hon. and Learned Member—(hear, hear)—and he would repeat it to the House, lest there should be any inaccuracy in the manner it had been understood. The order came down the column from the mouth of a field officer, who rode down the ranks on a good Sunday morning—( A laugh)—and who exclaimed, " Spare old men, women, and children, but every man who is able to bear arms put him to the bayonet." These were the words in which the field officer delivered the order, which he coupled with an addition, by way of a joke of his own, " Give them only three inches of it ; it will be the more easily pulled out again." lie (Colonel Thompson) could name the officer if he was asked ; he was an officer of bright repute, who fell two hours after giving this order.--( Hear.) Sir C. VE RE said that he was at Buenos Avres on the oc casion referred to, on the staff, and he could state, therefore, that any !uch order as that stated by the Hon. and Learned Member for Kilkenny, and by the Hon. and Gallant Member for Hull, to have been given on that occasion, was not an order from head-quarters.—( Hear, hear.) And he really could not have imagined that any Gentleman would rise in that House and speak to such an order as the one in question, and that he should not have taken the opportunity of stating it at the time when the subject of the assault on Buenos Ayres was before the country, and a Court-Martial sitting on the officer who commanded it.—( Hear, hear.) He begged to observe, also, that during the Court-Martial everything that had occurred in the proceedings against Buenos Ayres was inquired into. The proceedings at this Court-Martial might be obtained by any one who chose to refer to them ; and upon so doing it would be found that no such monstrous order, as that mentioned to-night, had been given by the officer in charge of the troops on that occasion. Of course it rested with the house to give what credit it might think proper to a statement made by an Hon. Member. He did not mean to say that the Hon. and Gallant Member for Hull did not believe at the time he made that statement that such an order as he mentioned had been given at that time, but he should have been careful before he stated that a particular order had been given not to state as an order that which on reflection he might find not to have beer, an order. The Hon. and Gallant Member stated, that the officer in question rode down the line, and repeated the words he had mentioned, and that a short time afterwards that officer fell. Now there might have been some indiscreet expression used by the officer on that occasion which gave rise to the observation of the Hon. and Gallant Member; but that any such order had been given from head-quarters he cold positively contradict. Colonel THOMPSON had spoken merely to facts within his own knowledge; and God forbid that he should speak to any other. He certainly did hear the order he had mentioned given, and he felt at the time, and now felt, in an official man ner, down the column. Whether the order was, in reality, an official order or not he could not tell. Sir H. HA RD INGE inquired whether there was any other officer living ho heard the order given, the officer w h o gave it being dead? Colonel THOMPSON was very willing to answer any questions of the Hon. and Gallant Officer, or any other mili tary man, which could throw a light on this subject. He had no wish to conceal anything if the Hon. and Gallant Officer would address himself to him on the subject. After they got outside of the House he would give him all the information in his power. Mr. BROTHERTON and several other Hon. Members then rose to move the adjournment of the debate. Mr. W. WILLIAMS had an important motion on the books for to-morrow, and that if the adjourned debate were to be resumed, then he should certainly make his motion as an amendment to the question brought before the House. Lord JOHN RUSSELL was understood to say that it was always competent to any Member to move the resumption of an adjourned debate on any motion before the House, and that if the Hon. Member persisted in bringing forward his motion to-morrow, he '(Lord J. Russell) should certainly do so in favour of the subject of the present debate. Mr. W. WI L IA NIS then moved that the adjourned de. bate on this question take plac;! on Wednesday. The Gallery was cleared for a division, but none took place, and the adjourned debate is therefore understood to come on to-morrow (this day). The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at Half-past Twelve. John Vizard, Esq., one of the ten Deputy Regis trars of the Court of Bankruptcy, has resigned his situation ; and by a late Act of Parliament his place is not to be tilled up. Mr. But thwick, M.P. for Evesham, who was obliged to leave town at the close of the debate last night, in conse quence of a severe domestic affliction, has paired off for the rest of the week N;• t h Mr. Charles March Phillipps. Mademoiselle Taglioni appears at Drury-lane in the course of a few days, in La Fille du Danube, a new ballet. Mrs. Wood and Madame Schroeder Devrient are about to ap pear together in Balfe's new opera, at Drury-lane. PRICES OF STOCKS THU Bank Stock. ..... .. 3 per Cent. Red. 89%3i i 3 per Cent. Cons 90 %406.% 314 per Cent......... 98% Ditto Red 97% New 314 per Cent VS% 3 4 sew 5 per Cent — Bank LongAnnuitiestoexpire Jan. 5, 1470 141 (2 9-16 Oct 111. 1859 14% Jan 5, IF-60 14 13-16 Jan. 5, .8a! — April 5, 1880 — Jan. 5, 1870... — Omnium pm. PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds —' Belgian Bonds .. Ditto Account ..— Brazilian Bonds . Ditto Account . — 2.1 doenos Ayres Bonds Ditto Account — Chi Man Bonds. . Ditto Account C .I. , mltian Bonds Ditto A.cciouni Co:umbian Bonds, :824 — Ditto Account Dinish Bonds 'l2% 3 Ditto Account Greek Bonds Ditto Bonds, 12.5 Ditto Account Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent — Ditto Account Ditto, ft per cent. ...... ••••• Ditto Account .. ..... -; Neapolitan PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share Real del Monte Mining Co., Registered Mt. 10s. 64. Ditto Unregiitered l5 ar,at Western Railway Company 4O 40 1 4 London and Birmingham Railway Company 75 P 6 London and (ireenwich rtailway Company 2O 194 London and Southampton Railway Company 35 16 3 4 16 Korth Midland Railway Company lO 6 Canada Company 24 3:34 London and Westminster Bank 2O . 1914 :s DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Lelia :;toe , 25514 Ditto 8orn.% South Sea Stock Annnities I New Ditto cgs/ 4 ' 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751_ Exch. Bills, £l,OOO l9 41 pm. (Ditto 500 39 41 pm. Ditto Small Ditto Commercial :37 on. Ditto Advertise,l — pm. Bank Stock for Account India Stock for Account Consols for Acconnt THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Peruvian Bonds Ditto Account Portuguese Bonds Ditto Account Ditto New Bonds Ditto Account ........ (314 7 Ditto, fl per cent 29% Pi - usian Bonds Russian Bonds, 18•22 Ditto Account Ditto 'Metallic Spanish Bonds Ditto Account Ditto Bonds, 1831 Ditto Account 92 !'e s A% French, 5 per cent.......... —t. —c. 4 per cent. —c. - 3 per cent. —f. —c - Exchange —f. —c. Dutch, 2 per cent. Ditto Account Ditto, 5 7.er cent 100 Ditto Account 99% MAILS. Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due 0 America.......... 0 . France I 0 Lishon 1 0 Brazil 0 Buenos Ayres.. 0 I Ilaintiuq• 0 0 Mexico 0 0 Carthagena...... 0 0 Holland I 11iiiilin... ...... 0 0 Jamaica 0 Flanders HIGH WATER AT LONDON !MIDGE TO-MORIWW. Mornin,r ..... ....59 minutes after 0. I minutes after I The p.blication of THE SON NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 10 minutes past Three o' Clock. qA _ .• • . tgZi-41 ‘-r• - . 1 77. .1- - kr; , )",tt',ll4 LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 18, 1837. In the House of Lords yesterday, the sitting was occupied pith the presentation of petitions and an incidental discussion on the Poor Laws, which will be read with interest. In the House of Commons, the alleged evasion of the Standing Orders by the agents of the London and Brighton Railway (Stevenson's line), led to some smart discussion. Mr. FA ZAKERLY presented a special Report from the Poor Law Committee, charging an Evening Paper with a breach cf privilege, by publishing evidence produced before that Committee, and not yet presented to the House. The Re port was ordered to be considered to-day. Afterwards a great deal of time was wasted in a purely per. sonal discussion, the nature of which will be seen by the fol lowing extract from the " Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons" : " Notice taken of a report of a debate of this House in the Morning Post Newspaper, in which certain words were attri buted to Sir James Graham respecting Sir Edward Codring ton ; and Sir Edward Codrington having called upon Sir James Graham to state whether he had made use of the words, Sir James Graham declined to make such statement, consider ing that such a practice would be contrary to the freedom of debate, and the privilege of the house ; and Sir Edward Codrington having intimated an intention of taking notice of the words out of the House, he was called upon to assure the House that he would not pursue that course; and having de clined to give the Iloui=e such assurance, Motion made, and Qaestion proposed,—' fhat Sir Edward Codrington he taken into the custody of the Sergeant at Arms attending this House :'—And Mr. Speaker having stated, that Sir James Graham ought not to be called upon to state whether a report in a Newspaper, of certain expressions made use of by him in this llouse, was or was not correct, Sir Edward Codrington submitted himself to the House, and assured them that he would not pursue the matter any further ; whereupon Sir James Graham stated, that he had now no objection to state that he had not made use of the words attributed to him : Motien, by leave, withdrawn." The remainder of the sitting was occupied with a debate on the affairs of Spain. Sir 1-I. HARDINGE made his meditated attack on the Foreign policy of his Majesty's Government, moving, pursuant to notice, " That an humble Address be presented to his Majesty, praying that his Majesty will be gra ciously pleased not to renew the Order in Council of the 10th of June, 1835, granting his Majesty's Royal Licence to British subjects to enlist into the service of the Queen of Spain which Order in Council will expire on the 10th of June ilex and praying also that his Majesty will be graciously pleased o ; give directions that the marine forces of his Majesty shall not be employed in the civil contest now prevailing in Spain, otherwise than in that naval co-operation which his Majesty has engaged to afford, if necessary, under the stipulations of the treaty." Sir STRATFORD CANNING seconded the moti n ; and after Lord LEVESON GOWER, Mr. C. WOOD, Lord F. EGERTON, and Mr. O'CONNELL had severally spoken on the question, the debate was adjourned to this day. The debate in the House of Commons last night on Sir HENRY HARDINGE'S motion on the Spanish question, was enlivened by no fact or argument which the country has not heard adduced an hundred times by the supporters of Queen ISABELLA 11., and the partisans of Don CARLOS. Of course its adjournment was studiously promoted by the Government, with a view to afford an opportunity to such Hon. Gentlemen as might wish to enlighten the House with the brilliancy of their non-reflection and inexpe rience, to shine out before their constituents ; and thus remove, by a single debate, one great cause of the constant interruption experienced by Ministers in the prose cution of their system of domestic legislation. Every Tory stripling in either House of Parliament cannot but be supposed eager to display before his astonished coun trymen the extent of his rambles in foreign countries, and the extraordinary nothings which he has collected on the subject of the Government, laws, institutions, and ha bits of the people among whom'he sojourned in stage coaches and at inns ; and therefore we think the Noble Foreign Secretary acts wisely in clearing the political stage for the self-exhibition of these embryo States men. The old Tory hacks—whose sole aim is to re gain possession of the Treasury Benches—arc men of a different stamp ; but the safest course with respect to them is to allow them to develope the plans which they have propounded, as the basis of their policy, in the event of their being again entrusted with the reins of Government. The speeches of Sir H. HARDINGE and Sir S. CANNING, the mover and seconder of the Resolution which formed the subject of the debate, sufficiently prove this. Both are opposed —or at least profess opposition—to the Spanish policy of Lord PALMERSTON ; and yet what is the policy which they propose to substitute for it? The recognition of Don CARLOS as Sovereign of Spain ? The nullification of the Quadruple Treaty ? The reduction of our naval force on the Spanish coast ? Nothing of the kind. On the contrary Sir STRATFORD CANNING assured the House that " he had ever abstained from throwing the shadow of a doubt on the policy of the Government, in recognizing the authority of the Queen of SPAIN. It was enough for them that they found the QUEEN governing —not only de facto, but that Government resting on well-established grounds, inasmuch as it was recognized by all the authorities i❑ Spain. The Queen of SPAIN met with no opposition to her claim to the Throne from the Cortes ; all the grandees recognized her authority ; the whole army sent in its ad herence ; and everywhere except in the Basque Provinces her sovereignty was acknowledged." From admitting the sound policy of our Government in recognising the Queen of SPAIN, the Right Hon. Baronet went on to defend the Quadruple Alliance as a masterpiece of statesman ship. That treaty had been the means of preventing a war between Spain and Portugal—otherwise una voidable. The Spanish Pretender had established him self in Portugal, and under the protection of Dos MI GUEL, whom FERDINAND VII. had recognised as the legitimate Sovereign of that country, and there had formed the " nucleus of a force intended to be afterwards employed against the rights of the Spanish QUEEN." The Spanish Government, failing in its efforts to prevail on the Usurper to refuse sanctuary to an avowed enemy of her Catholic MAJESTY, was only prevented from declaring war against Portugal by the signing of the Quadruple Alliance. On these grounds, therefore, Sir STRATFORD CANNING de fended the Treaty as just, necessary, and statesman like. Sir HENRY HARDINGE, without questioning the soundness of the policy which dictated the recognition of the Queen of SPAIN, and the signing of the Quadruple Treaty denounced Don CARLOS as a monster of cruelty in terms the most unqualified. He boldly avowed that he had no hesitation in saying that he despised—that he abhorred— that he detested the policy which dictated the Durango de cree. It was a monstrous—a barbarous outrage against all the rules of civilized warfare—against the laws of humanity itself. And if anything could disqualify Don CARLOS for holding the Throne of Spain, that decree would disqualify him." This settles the question at once. No Englishman will be found to deny— in the face of our own glorious Revolution—that an heir to the Throne cannot by crime disqualify himself for reigning. In 1830 the Duke of WELLING TON stated in the House of Lords that Don AIi &DEL'S perjury constituted a just ground of disqualifica tion for governing ; and it will not be disputed that murder is a greater crime than perjury. If crime can disqualify, says Sir HENRY HARDINIRE, Don CARLOS iS disqualified by the Durango decree. This admission on the part of an English Member of Parliament is ample enough. Crime can disqualify ; and therefore, on the showing of an invete rate Tory, Don CARLOS, has no better claim to the Spanish Throne than the meanest bandit in his service. And when all is done, what plan do the Tories pro pose ? Why the recal of the British Auxiliary Legion, and the confining of the operations of the Marines to their ships. Such, after all, is the pigmy offspring of the Conservative mountain, of whose long-expected travail the world has heard so much. Parliament is called upon to sanction a paltry, pitiful scheme of retrograding, which, without materially serving any pur pose or any faction, would cast disgrace upon the nation, ex pose us to the just scorn and indignation of the betrayed people of the Peninsula ; and hold us forth as a laughing-stock to all Europe. Mr. C. WOOD cited precedents in abundance in support of the employment of a naval co-operating force in land expeditions ; and Lord LEVESON admirably re futed the arguments of Sir STRATFORD CANNING, by pointing out the triumph which the legitimists of France would obtain over us by the withdrawal of our gallant auxiliaries from the Peninsula. We yesterday recommended to some influential Member of Parliament, the moving of an amendment on Sir HENRY HARDINGE'S motion, pledging the Government to direct and avowed intervention, as the only means of putting a speedy termination to the civil war in Spain. We beg to repeat this suggestion. We are confident that, if not opposed by Ministers, it would be carried by a triumphant majority, in spite of all the shifts and tricks of the Tories. Should a land force be voted for this service, we will readily support a propo sition for placing Sir HENRY HARDINDGE himself at the head of it. He is a gallant officer, and would do more to support the honour of Great Britain in the field than he is even likely to do in the Senate. At the rate at which the Parliamentary business is pro ceeding, it may, we suppose, be completed somewhere about Christmas—certainly not sooner. Honourable Gen tlemen seem to think that they have been sent into the House of Commons for no other purpose than to talk. As old COBBETT used to say—it is all talk, and no do. Our Representatives are not now-a-days content with a long discussion on the principle of a Bill at its second reading ; there must be a regular palaver at every stage of a measure—first, when it appears in the embryo state of a resolution, and then respectively on the first, second, and third reading—to say nothing of the ex penditure cf breath when a Bill, with 150 clauses, gets into Committee, with 658 aspirants for fame eager to signalise themselves on each several clause. Nor is this all. This passion for longwindedness has broken in upon the wholesome practice of concluding a debate at one sitting. Such a phenomenon now hardly ever occurs. It is re garded as stamping a question with the seal of inferiority or insignificance, if its discussion does not extend through more than one sederunt. Now, this waste of the public time is, in our opinion, a serious evil, and something must be done to remedy it. Gentlemen given to eloquence must really prescribe some limits to the exercise of their gifts. If we might be allowed to propose a suggestion on such a subject, it would be this—that no speaker should be allowed to say anything that had bee❑ said before, during the debate, under the penalty of being committed to the care of the Sergeant at Arms. The rule is simple, easy of execution, and, we venture to say, will accelerate the public business in a very wonderful degree. THE FUNDS.--(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Our arrivals this morning are the Hamburgh mails French mails due). Ship-letters from China, St. Helena, Berbice, and Demerara,- Singapore, 29th Oct., Calcutta, 6th, 10th, an d and 17th Dec.; Van Diemen's Land, Ceylon, 24th Dec., Cape of Good Hope, 14th Feb., and from Mauritius. We have received Cape of Good Hope Papers to the 12th Feb., Hobart Town Papers to the 2d November, Launces ton to the 4th Nov. The Cape of Good Hope Papers contain two documents relative to the emigrating from the colony to wards the north and east, of which so much has been said of late. Fifty men, it seems, have left Mr. Buchan's Field Cornetcv, and twenty-six have passed over the boundary--so far the emigration does not appear to be of a very formidable nature. The Hobart Town and Launceston Papers are ♦oid of in terest. The ship-letters to-day from the East Indies are of old dates. ( From the Cape of Good Hope Papers.) Extract of a letter from Uitenhage, Feb. 2 :—" Friday last the Lieut.-Governor arrived in town from Caffreland. On Saturday his Honour visited Port-Elizabeth ; he arrived in Graham's Town on the 2d inst. It is reported here that many of our migratory farmers are returning, and that the remain der will return when they have lost all their property." THE FUNDS. In commercial affairs at present we cannot announce any improvement, but accounts from Liverpool, received yester day, state that orders were given by the Bank Directors to their Branches in that part of the country, to discount the bills of the produce brokers, which have not been received of late at the Branch Banks. This no doubt will give some relief by preventing the total disappointment of the Depu tation from Liverpool, to whom the Bank refused assistance. This morning is entirely occupied with the perusal of the debate of last night in the House of Commons on the affairs of Spain, by our City politicians and Coffee-house loungers. Consols, which closed at 90a i both for Time and Money, opened at the above price, with little doing. Exchequer Bills, 40 41 prem. ; India Bonds, 37 prem. ; Bank Stock, 204 India Stock, 258 ; Spanish, 22 ; Portuguese, 461- -4- ; Three per Cents., 2gi; Coupons, 46; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents., 52j. The report yesterday that the packet ship of the 20th from New York, had arrived off Land's End, does not appear cor rect, and up to the present time we do not hear of her arrival. HALF-PAST ONE. To the present time there is not a feature either in the British or Foreign Markets worth notice, with the exception that in the foreign, Spanish Coupons have improved in the course of the morning from 46 to 51, owing to the prevailing opinion that the Finance Minister of Spain has been able to provide for that portion of the dividends of Coupons, which became due in November, last, and which, under the ar rangement, granting Treasury Bonds must speedily be liqui dated. Consols have been during the morning at 90i i ; Money, 90i, little doing. Exchequer Bills, 393- 41 prem. ; India Bonds, 37 39 prem. ; Bank Stock, 2041 ; India Stock, 258. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active, 221; Deferred, 81; Portuguese, 46} 47 ; Three per Cents., 291; Dutch Two and-a-Half per Cents., 53. Consols for the Account, 90i THREE O'CLOCK. The Rev. Mr. Stanley, the new Bishop of Nor wich, was recently in Ireland, and on his return to this country published a most seasonable pamphlet on the state of that country, in which he took sound and rational views of the ne cessity of meeting the popular demands " for justice." Yesterday morning, as a van belonging to Messrs. Kenworthy, the carriers, of Aldermanbury, was proceeding on its way to Oxford street, some daring thief, or thieves, con trived to steal a package containing a numerous quantity of valuable silk shawls, &c. A gang of notorious fellows are in the habit of watching and following vans and carts, for the purposes of plunder, and Messrs. Kenworthy have recently been sufferers to the amount of 6001. The inhabitants of Newcastle and neighbourhood are responding to the call which has been made upon them from the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, with their ac customed sympathy and spirit. Already the sum subscribed amounts to 6931. 7s. 6d. Three public meetings on the subject of Church rates, were held, in the West Riding, on Monday ; and in each case, the Tories offered opposition, but were signally defeated. At Bradford and Wakefield, the friends of the mi nisterial measure carried their resolutions most triumphantly ; and at Huddersfield they were defeated, not by the friends of Church -rates, but by the Ultra- Radical opponents of the new poor law, led on by Mr. Oastler and his clique of firebrands. Halifax Express. There is now living in Folly-lane, Arnold, a person named John Smith, who has occupied the same house fifty years ; he has worked in a thirty-eight guage frame, for thirty eight years, without having it recruited, and his vision is so strong, that he has always worked without spectacles, although he is now 78 years of age.—Nottinghanz Review. The Journal du Pas de Calais gives the following statement of the number of arrivals and departures from the ports of Boulonge and Calais during the first three months of 1837 :—Boulogne, arrivals, 2,573 ; departures, 2,900. Calais, arrivals, 2,435 ; departures, 2,472; total, 10,380. " This number," says the journal, " although in a most boisterous season, much exceeds that in the same months of 1836." The best and most durable paper of its quality is said to be made of Irish linen and Bandanna handkerchiefs, and is used for American bank -notes. LONGFORD COUNTY ELECTION COMMITTEE.-(THIS DAY.) The Committee met to-day at eleven o'clock, and counsel and agents having been called in, Mr. Lawson moved that strangers withdraw, in order that the Committee should deli berate on the course it would be advisable to pursue. The room was cleared, and on our readmission at half-past twelve. The CHAIRMAN said that the Committee had decided upon the following resolution :--" That the principle on which beneficial interest" was to be estimated was according to the terms of the Irish Reform Act, the 10 Geo. 4, sec. 6, c. 66•" Mr. WRANGHAM said, that looking at the decision of the Committee, coupled with their having struck off a vote at the conclusion of yesterday's proceedings, he would suggest, as a means of saving time and expense, that a number of voters liable to the same objections as prevailed against Reynolds should be agreed upon out of Court. The CHAIRMAN having consulted with the Committee, said it would better at present for Counsel to proceed with their case. Mr. ROBINSON, for the sitting Member, begged to say that he was as anxious as his Learned Friend to save time and expense, but the Committee would be aware that the resolu tion just now come to by the Committee was quite different from that of the last Longford Committee; he was not pre pared to give up any vote at present. It was ultimately agreed that the Committee should pro ceed, and the vote of Thomas Quarne was struck off for in sufficiency of value. MONEY MARKET. Two more packet-ships from New York, the Philadelphia and the Samson, the former of which sailed on the 2d, and the latter on the 12th, ultimo, have arrived since Saturday, and the President is supposed to have been approaching the Land's End when the accounts left Fahnouth. The last-named vessel would bring advices of four or five days' later date than those received by the England, namely, to the 20th ult., and, the exchange on this country having advanced so considerably, it is expected by many that she may have a large amount of specie on board. Neither of the four packets announced on.. Friday and to-day have, however, brought any such remit tances. Some commercial letters, dated the 15th ult., which we have seen, express an opinion that nothing can now pre vent the immediate shipment of large quantities, should the Foreign Exchanges only be maintained at their recent eleva tion, and it is probable, from the unfavourable advices that would continue to be received from Europe up to a much later period, that they would go still higher, rather than the con trary. We learn also that preparations are making for the transmission of a larfa supply from different parts o f th e Con tinent ; so that the Bank cellars cannot well fail we suppose to be speedily replenished. The Liverpool letters received this morning are more cheer ful than any we have seen from that place for many weeks past. They mention that there was every prospect of the branch banks of the Bank of England resuming their discounts of the bills of the produce brokers, which have been suspended since January last, and that, although the sales of Cotton were still limited, no further depreciation in that staple had taken place. We have numerous arrivals in the Channel from China and. India. By the former from 6,000 to 7,000 bales of silk have come to hand, and we understand that about 10,000 bales more are on their way. —Morning Post. Our commercial money market presents no particular altera tion in its general features, but a temporary calm has been created, in consequence of the statement that the .bank direc tion had followed up their refusal to accommodate the Liver pool deputation, by desiring the branch banks to afford all the assistance which their local knowledge would justify. At such a crisis, this decision is important, and we trust that it may have the desired effect. —Morning Herald. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-( THIS DAY.) DEAL, APRIL 17.—Wind N.N.W., blowing strong.—Ar rived the Alexander Baring, St. Croix, from Canton; Guiana, Tafe, from Launceston ; Repulse, Price, from Calcutta ; Ex mouth, Warren, from Bombay; Claudine, Keen, from Berbice ; Porcupine, Cook, from Smyrna; Caroline, from Leghorn; Gazelle, from the Mediterranean ; Ringdove, Wilmot, from Memel ; Albion, Stevens, from Galway. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 17.—Wind N. W., fresh breezes. Arrived the Venus, Brun, Smyrna; Turk, Penton, Terceira. FALMOUTH, APRIL W.—Wind N.N.E., fresh breezes, with snow.—Arrived the Elizabeth, Kelly, from London, bound to , Miramichi, with damage, and loss of mizenmast, &c., having been in contact with his Majesty's ship Wasp. A small vessel, apparently about 80 tons, sharp built, with a very deep false keel, and bottom upwards, was passed, sth inst., in lat. 47, lon. 15, by the Susan, arrived off here. Dom, APRIL 17.—Arrived off, the iliran, Dailey, from Villa Nova ; Bencoolen, Croft, from Calcutta ; Courier, Dixon, from the Mauritius ; Vernon, Davis, from Madeira. TORBAY, APRIL N.—Arrived the Adelina, Bradfield, from St. Michael's. HOLYHEAD, APRIL 16.—Arrived the John Woodhall, and Sterling, Berry, from Alexandria. CLYDE, APRIL 15.—Arrived the Sabina, Cook, from 11147- bile ; Henry, Collins, from New Orleans. ELSINEUR, APRIL 11.—The Frederica, from Liverpool to Dantzic, and the Concordia, from Stralsund to Liverpool, drove foul of each other during a gale on the 9th inst.; both received damage—the former proceeded, and the latter has. come into this harbour to repair. DUNDEE, APRIL 14.—The Two Sisters, of Kirkaldy, sunk on the banks of the Tay lith inst.—Crew saved. MADEIRA, MARCH 17.—The Cortes, Sardinian Polanee, was wrecked during a gale yesterday. TERCEIRA, MARCH 25.—A very severe gale from S. E. was experienced on the 23d inst. The Portuguese, Haite Oato de Maio, was driven on shore, and became a total wreck. RIGA, APRIL 6.—No vessel has yet appeared in the Roads. The river is still quite fast, and apparently the ice will not take its departure for soma time. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 16. —Wind N. W., moderate, and heavy , showers of snow.—Arrired the Henrietta, Fell, from Lima;. General Gascoyne, —, from Demerara; Gondola, Rennie. from Mobile; Celia, Black, from Charleston; Rapid, Coat' rane, from Alexandria; Harmonia, Habeck, from Stettin ; Diligence, —, from Dantzic ; Amelia, —, from Do. The Jane, from Bristol to Philadelphia, foundered on the 10th ult. near Madeira—crew and passengers saved. The St. Thomas, from Messina to St. Petersburg, is on shore near Prestoe, and full of water. The Hadoo House, from Sunderland to Dantzie, is on short near Stege. The Aiexican, from London to Copenhagen, and the Alpha, from London to Dantric, are stranded on the coast of Jutland. Tho Drie Gesehwistery, bound to Dordt, has put back to , Newport, leaky, having been on shore. YARMOUTH, APRIL 17.—The Pekili (Dutch galliot), timber laden, and abandoned, has been brought into this port. " Admiralty, April 17, 1837- " Sir,—l am commanded by my Lords Commissioners or the Admiralty to acquaint you, for the information o f the' Committee managing the affairs of Lloyd's, that his Majesty's brig Scorpion has sailed from Devonport, and the Mutirie" (packet), from Falmouth, for the relief of the homeward bound trade, detained by adverse winds at the entrance o f the' Channel. " I am, Sir, &c., &c., " JOHN BARROW." " W. Dobson, Esq., Secretary, Lloyd's." Extract from the Articles of War for governing ti Navy :—" Art. 18. If any captain, commander, or otb.er officer of any of his Majesty's ships or vessels shall receive 0 3 board, or permit to be received on board, such ship or vi!ssel any goods or merchandizes whatsoever, other than for the sole use of the ship or vessel, except gold, silver, or jewels, an d ' except the goods or merchandizes belonging to any merchan or other ship or vessel which may be shipwrecked, or in ica" . minent danger of being shipwrecked, either on the high seas" or in any port, creek, or harbour, in order to the preserving' them for their proper owners, and except such goods or ma"' chandiaes AS he shall at any time be ordered to take or receive' on board by order of the Lord High Admiral of Great Britain,• or the Commissioners for executing the office of Lord Hig h " Admiral for the time being: every person so offending, being convicted thereof by the sentence of a Court-martial, shall cashiered, and be for ever afterwards rendered incapable to serve in any place or office in the naval service of his Majesty' his heirs and successors." PATENT LEVER WATCHES' With silver double-b o tt om cases With silver hunting cases 6 16 " This celebrated construction (the most accurate on which watch can be made) is offered, with the latest improveme ut ,;' i. e. the detached escap emen t, j ewe ll e d i n f our h o l es, ca PPe hand to mark the seconds, hard enamel dial, and maintaining Po le to continue going while winding up, at the above price, by T. COX SAVORY, Working Silver and Goldsmith, 47, Cornhill, London. N. B.—Second-hand Watches purchased in exchange. .110 BIRTHS. On the 15th inst., in Cambridge-street, Hyde-park, the MI of Arthur Easton, Esq., of a son. On the 15th inst., the lady of John Evans, Esq., of Lino ° Inn, of a daughter. cot. On the 16th inst., at Woolwich-common, the lady of J. P- lins, Esq., Colonial Secretary, Prince Edward's Island, of MARRIED. On the 13th inst., at Southampton, Henry J. Hal'inam, Burcott, Oxford s hi re , to Eleonora, youngest daughter of Tri °.-3 Goldney, Esq. On the 15th inst., at All-hallows, Barking, G. J. Blake, I.‘ l t ; of Great T ower - s t ree t, t o C aro li ne M ary, only daughter of t he J. Hopwood, Esq., of Blackfriars-road. , On the 13th i ns t., a t Sh e ffi e ld , M r. Wm. Hems, juo.,cu os chapel High- s t ree t, t o M ary, d aughter of the late Mr. Geo. tenholm, Rockingham-works, Sheffield. D iED. 31r. On the 7th inst., at Ty I sa , near R uthin, Denb i g h s hire, Edward M. Edwards, aged 94. T sica , On the 20th inst., at th e Gl e b e Chateau, St. Andrew's , J r - a3a ; ri g William Hylton, Esq., formerly of the Delve, Westmorland, 113ivri-eo the day previou s ly a tt a i ne d hi s 83th year. He was the 1 . descendant of the ancient Bar ons o f hi s name, f ormer ly the pr o p rie. tors of Hylton Castle, Durham. Nort h ' On the 15th i ns t., age d 3 1 , M r. Robert John Mans fi e ld, of J. place, Gray's Inn. On the 14th inst., at Sidmouth-street, Henry Hollier , _ wa n_ aged 35, you nges t son o f t h e l ate C . W. Hollier, E sq. , of P el lf . Mr- On the 4th ins t., a t N ewport, E ssex, Athal i a h , w ide" o 11. J. Cannir - r, heretofore of Quendon, Essex, aged 62. Nor.. On the 10th inst., at Dawli s h, D evons hi re , the Rev. Jo hn , g. cross, lector of Framlingham-cum-Saxt (I, Suffolk, age d London : P r i n t e d an d P u bli s h e d b y_ MURDO YOUNG, of lint y 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. II", Strand, irk the eP of Middlesex.—Tuesday, April 18, 1831. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1E337.