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SPIRIT OF TtIE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We have reason to believe that the following is a correct analysis of the House with reference to the dirision of Thursday morning : For the resolution Tellers. Against tie resolution Tellers Pairs .... 273 .••. 40 315 250 40 Absent, generally acting with Government 2B Absent 'Furies lB Doubtful Speaker SUMMARY. For tbe resolution Against Absent :315 292 50 Speaker The analysis differs slightly from the lists given in another part of this paper ; but we are unable at present to state wherein consists the error, which is trifling. It thus appears that the number of absentees on the side of the Government was much larger than on the side of the Tories ; and. we can only regret that in a division of such importance. seven Irish Members should have been absent without pe:trs, who might have voted, and probably would have done so, had it been a question which immedisaely affected Irish interests ; whilst on the Tory side but one was absent without a pair, viz., Mr. D. Ker. The attendance of the Tories on the present occasion has been most exemplary, as out of all the Members who supported that party, but eight were absent who could by p ossibility have attended ; and cf these it is generally understood that two absented themselves on purpose, being inclined to support the resolution, though they prefrared adhering to their party to giving expression to their real opinions. Consider ing, therefore, the large list of absentees en the Li beral side, the n'ambers bear pretty nearly the same proportion to each other which they have borne on all divisions on questions of reform in the Church or mat ters connected with it which have been debated in this (let it be remembered Sir Robert Peel's) Parliament. On this and on the other similar questions it will be for the country to give its opinion ; and we shall be much surprised, indeed, if the response is not loudly in favour of the measures of the present Government. When separated from the misrepresentations and mis-statements of interested parties, these measures must and will receive the cordial support of an undeceived people, as they will merit the approbation of a discerning posterity, which will with difficulty believe that faction could have so far endeavoured to peril the in terests of a great nation for the purpose of advancing its selfish ends. Among the other misrepresentations of which a handle has been made to influence lessees is the allegation " that the terms of purchase by the lessees are fixed and compulsory." These terms are to be settled in the Committee on the Bill, and it can only be the wish of Ministers to act liberally in all cases. We have no doubt that on the next division the majority in favour of Ministers will be much greater. By that time the eyes of the people, who, in many places, have been deluded by the vilest misrepresentations, will be opened. Tile parsons, acting on the instructions from head-quarters, have greatly abused the conSlenee reposed in them by their unsuspecting- parishioners. Every day will help forward the cause of truth and justice. The Bishops were so afraid of the effect of time that they rested their hopes on the effects of a coup de main. They have shot their bolt, they have done their worst, and now comes the turn of the fri. , nds of liberty and religious peace. They owe much to Ministers, and ire trust that they will not he backward in bestirring. themselves in every part of the coun try to obtain that support to Ministers by which they may be enabled to obtain the- success to which their exertions in the good cause so amply entitles them.-41forn. aronicle. We do not think that the small mijority of 23 upon Wednesday evening should exeiti: much astonishment or disappointment. It may, it is true, annoy the friends of good government to find a measure of such vast utility so badly supported in a reformed house of Commons ; but they must at the same time recollect that the present legis lative assembly is a Peel Parliament, chosen under Tory influ:.nce of the worst character, in whielt the Carlton Club and the Treasury combined their power to promote the bad cause. The - Peel Parliament indeed was elected during an eventful period, when 'Toryism, at the death-gasp, was attempted by a desperate faction to be revived by every me ins that corruption and treachery could devise. It would fill a large volume, instead of the columns of a news paper, were we barely to glance at the various acts of bribery and corruption practisel upon that occasion to ensure the return of Conservatives. In the English counties, coercion, to secure'the votes of obstinate te- nanti wAs opeiily had recourFe to, while in the borough wholesale - bribery was as glaring as " the sun at noon day." Similar disgraceful occurrences took place in sendry parts of Scotland. As to Ireland we have only to mention Dublin and Carlow as the scenes of pecuniary pollution. and intimidation which dishonour that kingdom, and which half incline us to form the opinion that the franchise in that country, were it not for the singular instances patriotism displayed by its people, is a mocery and a curse. It must also be borne in mind that until lately we had only a Whig Administration existing to pro pitiate the Tories. It is gratifying to know that the pre sent Government have at least partially pursued a different course : would we could with truth assert that they had altogether adopted this safe and wisa policy. But, alas! we cannot ; and in this particular they have a lesson to learn from their Tory rivals, which they would do well to attend to. When do we see Tories conciliating foes and neglect ing friends ? When do we observe Tories allowing the un derlines of the Treasury to treat with coolness or discour tesy their stanchest and unpurchasable auxiliaries? We do maintain that another sort of tactics must be adopted, else the Ministry may fall, and the conduct of the popular cause devolve upon others whose honesty may not be greater, but who will be likely to manifest more wisdom— or, nt least, more attachment to their unflinching and tin questionable friends.—Moruin,J The smallness of the Ministerial majority upon the Chancellor of the Exchegner's plan to despoil the Church of its prescriptive property and national character, is, we think, decisive of its fate. Had the Roman Catholic Members, mindful of their solemn oath, abstained from voting, the majority would have born the other way, nut withstanding the number of placemen, or close connections of placemen, the douse, whose seffragas are always at the disposal of the Ministers of the Crown. We know not exactly what that number is, at the present moment. The Standa: d reckons them at forty, and we believe they are not very inferior in number to the joints of " the Tail." The Ministers staked their political exist ence upon this measure, and we trust that the days of their political existence are timbered. The unseemly and offensive personal attack made by the Chief Minister of the Crown upon the amiable and venerated Archbishop of Canterbury, for expressing, in the most temperate lan guage, his firm dissent from the " act of sacrilegious spolia tion," to which his name had been appended without his concurrence, showed how ardent was the zeal of Lord Melbourne to accommodate the " consciences" of the enemies of the Church, whether political Dissenters, Ro manists, or Infidels, by robbing of its national;character and support the reformed religion, whose interests are gua ranteed by the Act of Settlement which placed the family of our most gracious Sovereign on the throne, and by the King's coronation oath. On former occasions, when the Church has been attacked, the acts of hostility have ori ginated with other parties than the official servants of the King, who, as the temporal head of the Church, is bound to defend it against all who seek to weaken or subvert it. On the present occasion the King's Ministers are the leaders of the attack, but against the rock of the Church shall their power be broken. With their feeble majority of 28 in the House of Commons, and with an overwhelming majority against them, both in the nation and the House of Lords, what can the Ministers do ? Can they, with the slightest hope of success, bring in their Bill founded upon the reso lutions, which-, but for the Roman Catholic Members, would have been negatived even in the Commons ? They cannot. They must see that the case is hopeless. Disastrous ad vance, or ignominious retreat, is the alternative before them. In attempting to subvert the national religion, the mild and tolerant mother of the sects that wage unnatural war against their parent, they have abridged the- tenure of their power, and accelerated a Ministerial change, that, whether we look to our domestic or foreign interests, cannot but be beneficial to the country.—Morning Herald. The Prince and Princess Capua will again visit London in June, a suite of apartments having been taken for them at Mivart's Hotel. THE NEW WORK, BY THE AUTHOR OF " TRE MAINE" AND " DE VERE."—We are requested to state that Mr. Plumer Ward's new work, entitled " Human Life," in 3 vols. post Bvo., is published this day, by Mr. Colburn, 13, Great Marlborough.street, and may now be obtained of all Booksellers. Agents for Scotland, Bell and liradfute, Edin burgh ; for Ireland, John Cumming, Dublin. The Statistics of most of the great Railways in England are introduced in the Glossary at the end of Mr. Mr. Whishaw's " Analysis." 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A • " ';' 2 0 • CL.) LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 17, 1837. In the House of Lords yesterday, petitions, and con versation of some interest, on the subject of Church -rates, occupied their Lordships a considerable time. The affairs of Canada were then brought forward by the Earl of Hires, rho moved that an account of the expense of the Commission sent to Canada, be laid on the table. It was eventually arranged that a message should he sent to the Commons, requesting them to communicate the evi (knee on the subject now before their House. The Municipal Corporation Act Amendment Bill went through Committee, and the R. port was ordered to he received on the Friday after Easter. Their Lordships then adjourned. In the House of Commons, after some warm discussion relating to the Brighton Railway Bills, the baneful opera tion of the Corn Laws was brought under the notice of a very thin House, by Mr. CLAY, who presented several pe titions from various places against them. The Hon. Mem ber fur the Tower Hamlets concluded a long and masterly speech, characterized throughout by great accuracy, clear ness and ability, with moving, " That the House resolve itself into a Committe of the whole House, to consider the propriety of permitting corn, grain, meal, and flour, the growth and produce and manufacture of any foreign country, to be imported into the United Kingdom for consumption, on the payment of fixed duties, instead of duties regulated from time to time according to the average price of British corn." A discusssion ensued, which we have elsewhere no ticed. On a division the numbsrs were, for Mr. CLAY'S motion, 89 ; Against it, 223. Mr. Alderman WOOD obtained leave to bring in a Bill to effect improvements in the Metropolis, and for purchasing Waterloo and Southwark bridges for the free use of the public. The Hon. Gentleman stated that it was not in tended to raise the money necessary fur those objects by means of a lottery, but by a duty on coals. The LORD-ADVOCATE obtained leave to bring in a But for regulating the sequestration of Bankrupt's Estates in Scotland ; and a Bill to regulate the process of Sheriffs' and Burgh Courts in Scotland. On the motion of the CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER, a Select Committee was appointed to consider the best mode of effecting a survey of parishes, for the purpose of carrying into effect the Tithe Commutation Act. Various Returns regarding Canada were ordered, and the House then adjourned. Mr. CLAY last night brought forward his long expected motion on the subject of the Corn-laws. The object of the Honourable Member for the Towet Hamlets was to repeal the present absurd and impolitic and fraudulent sys tem, by which the price of the first necessary of life is en hanced to the community in order to put money into the pockets of a small and selfish class, and to substitute in its stead a simpler and more equitable plan. The duties on im ported corn are regulated at present by the prices in the home market taken at stated periods the duties falling as prices rise, and vice versa—the consequence of which is that it becomes a matter of great importance to speculators to falsify the averages to suit their particular interests ; and that this is done to an enormous extent is agreed on all hands. Mr. CLAY proposes that instead of these ever-varying and un certain duties, fixed duties should be laid on corn, meal, &c. imported from other countries. The principles avowed by Mr. CLAY would have led him to abolish the Corn-laws altogether, and to have advocated an unrestricted trade in human food, but be knew that it would have been useless to attempt gaining the assent of the landed interest to such a proposition, and therefore he very properly limited his motion to a qualified repeal. The result has thus shown beyond all doubt that the landowners are impenetrable to arguments founded on reason and deduced from experience —that they are doggedly determined to cling to the sys. tem as it exists at all hazards. They have a monopoly, and they will keep it. Their interests are opposed to those of all the other classes of the community ; yet this is a distinction which they find it convenient to blink alto gether in their clamour for protection. We can see some justice in one branch of trade claiming an equal degree of protection with another, but these voracious manufacturers of an article of necessary and universal consumption, and therefore entitled to less protection than others, would claim a protection both differing in kind, and exceeding in degree, that afforded to every other species of manufac ture. And look at the inconsistency displayed by their TliF! SUN, LoNpoN, FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1837. advocates. Cun anything exceed the blundering despera tion of the 11.arquis of CHANDOS in defending his favourite law of stare ation ? " Why," says the Noble Marquis, " should not; ibe manufacturer of corn be protected as well as the manuf acturer of silk Now, to drop the obvious distinction 1 3etween an article of luxury used by few, and one of necessity used by all, what was the object of Mr. CLAT's motion which the Marquis of CHANDOS was resisting, brit to give the landowner the protection which the Noble Marquis claimed ? Was it not to place corn on the sang footing as other imported commodities, by sub jecting it to afixed instead of a perpetually fluctuating duty ? The Hon. Member for the Tower Hamlets has not sue ceded in his meritorious object, but he has the consolation of reflecting that he has performed a great duty to his country in a manner that must raiso him in the estimation of all who are capable of appreciating high principle, combined with great talent. He has bestowed, it is evident, much labour upon the subject of the Corn-laws ; and no one can read the speech of last night, without admiring the masterly manner in which the question is handled. If it is to be regretted that he should have thrown his pearls before swine, we are sure the country at large will not benefit the less by his exertions. Mr. HARDY has redeemed his pledge to the House of Commons. He has brought forw'ard his promised Bill for the prevention of bribery at elections ; and although sub stantial cause exists for placing no reliance upon the sines: rity of the Hon. and immaculate Gentleman when dwelling upon the horror with which he professes to regard bribery in every shape, yet do we freely admit that it would be dif cult to frame a Bill under which it would be more difficult for the subtlest casuist to give, promise, or accept a bribe without perjury, than the one which he proposes for the adoption of the Legislature. 'The first clause simply repeals the 7th of WILLIAM 111. c. 4. ; the 2nd, of GEO. 11. c. 24 ; the 49th of GEo. 111. c. 118., and the 7th and Bth of GEo. IV. c. 37.—a1l Acts passed to prevent bribery at elections, and to secure the purity and indepen dence of the House of Commons. The second clause sub jects to a penalty of 5001. any person offering, paying, or promising to pay, any sum of money, whether advanced by way of gift, loan, or donation to any individual, corpora tion, club, or society, with a view to obtain the return of any person whatever to serve in Parliament. The third clause subjects to the same penalty any person who by himself, or others, by means of money, promises of place, or any other advantage, procures, or attempts to procure, the vote of any elector, or to prevent him from voting. The fourth clause imposes the same penalty for paying any part of even the necessary expenses or travelling charges of electors. The fifth clause subjects to a penalty of 501. the allowing of any compensation for loss of time on the part of the electors. The sixth clause imposes the same penalty for allowing them either meat or drink before or after the election. The seventh clause declares that all candidates proved to have been guilty of any of the foregoing offences shall be declared incapacitated to serve in the Parliament then sitting. The eighth clause subjects to a penalty of 101. the giving of any cockades or ribbons to be worn by the elec tors, as the distinguishing mark of their party or candidate. The ninth clause enacts that electors convicted of having received any money, promise thereof, place, or other ad vantage for voting or refraining to vote, are to be liable for each offence to a penalty of 501., and to be for ever inca pable of holding any office, benefice, commission, place, or employment. Electors convicted of receiving a compensa tion for loss of time are to have their votes declared void, and their names struck off the poll. Neither are they to receive hire as special constables, nor to be appointed such unless in a ease of actual riot, when their services aro to be given gratis. On the return of Members to serve in Par liament they are to take at the table of the House an oath couched in these words :—" I do swear that I have not advanced, paid, nor promised, nor will I hereafter advance, pay, or promise to any person whatsoever any money, gift, or reward of any kind, for the purpose of corruptly procur ing or promoting, or having corruptly procured or pro moted, my return to Parliament?' Every elector on com ing to the hustings to vote, must, if so required by any candidate, or any two electors, swear that he has neither received, nor will receive, any reward or compensation whatever for the vote which he is about to give ; and a similar oath is required to be taken by every Returning Officer after reading the writ. In the case of elee- tion petitions, the Committee sitting upon them is authorized to examine all witnesses, whether agents or otherwise, and to declare the election void when bribery is proved by any witnessses to have been carried on. In its Report the Committee is boom] to state whether the offence was a first one, and how often repeated. Witnesses ex amined before Committees, on Election Petitions, arc not to be allowed to conceal any part of the truth from a fear of eliminating themselves. Tbey arc to be compelled to dis close all they know, and if their disclosures satisfy the Committee, they are to be furnished with a certificate, signed by the SPEAKER, which shall be a full discharge from all prosecutions and penalties to which they may have be come liable. All persons discovering offences against this Act, within three months after their commission, are to be indemnified for losses sustained, and discharged from the penalties incurred under any of its provisions. _ This Bill would put an end to bribery at elections, were it conceivable that men capable of bribing and receiving bribes, would be deterred from such a crime by the dread of taking a false oath. We admit that many instances might be cited of men ready to sell their franchises for a sum of money, or the promise of a place, who would make any sacrifice rather than perjure themselves ; but at the sank time we are of opinion that in the majority of cases, the man who would off.n., or accept a bribe, would not be over squeamish about the sacredness of an oath. It is therefore of the last importance that in guarding against a corruption which threatens to be fatal to our liberties, we adopt not such a system of prevention as may sap the foundation of public morals. It is as impolitic as . _ it is anti-Christian to sanction the administration of oaths on every trifling occasion ; and we think that under this. Bill too great facilities are allowed for hurting the feelings and injuring the morals of the elective body, by the unne. cessary imposition of such sacred tests. What high-minded elector would not deem himself insulted, if on coming to the poll among hundreds of his neighbours, a candidate were to single him out, and insist on his taking the oath against bribery? And supposing him to have taken a bribe, is it to be believed that under such circumstances he would shrink from the commission of a perjury to screen his guilt from public detection ? Thus, if be were inno cent, the idea of his having been suspected of perjury would rankle like a poisoned barb i❑ his heart's core—an outrage would have been offered to him which he would resent to the day of his death ; and, on the contrary, if be were guilty, one crime would unnecessarily be heaped upon another. We are therefore opposed on principle to a system which cannot be carried into effect with so much rash swearing, and such deadly injury to the feelings of the electors. We are, moreover, quite confident that were such an optional power of administering a bribery oath vested in candidates, and in every two of the electors, one-third of the electors of these kingdoms would decline altogether to take any part in the election of Members to serve in Parliam en t. In fact, the elective franchise would be completely mono polised by a few demagogues on the one side, and zealots on the other, prepared to sacrifice the great interests of the country to the petty triumphs of faction. The only moral and radical remedy for the prevention of bribery at elections, is the Ballot. In it the elective body can only find a sure protection against coercive influence, and a shelter from the indignities to which this Bill would expose them. Should Parliament , however, think more favourably of this Bill, as a remedy for the prevention of bribery than we do, we trust that no optional power of admini s t er i ng an oa th, will be vested in either the candi dates or th e e l ec t ors , but that the oath, if imp ose d at a ll , will be taken by every elector, on presenting himself to vote for a Member to serve in Parliament. The Marylebone Conservatives held their second anni versary festival yesterday. Mr. MACKINNON was in the Chair, and expatiated in high terms of eulogy, an d at con siderable length, on the various political deserts of the House of Lords. " Great as were the exertions," ob served the Hon. Gentleman, " of the House of Lords in the cause of civil and religious liberty at former periods, they were not greater than the exertions of the present House. That body was now composed of the most distin guished men in the land, the first statesmen, and the ablest political and military leaders of the daj." This will be news to the majority of our readers—and indeed to the country generally, whose great cause of complaint with the present House of Lords is, that it is characterised by qualities diametrically the reverse of those which Mr. MAcxiti xoN has ascribed to it. What delayed the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, and the passing of the Catholic Emancipation Bill, but the hatred to " religious liberty" felt by the House of Lords? What delayed the triumph of Reform in the Commons, but the same deep rooted hatred to " civil liberty" felt by the same Institution ? The Hon. Member could not possibly have given a more diastrous turn to his compliment, so exquisitely inapposite is it, and so very like " censure in disguise." The re mainder of the speeches made at this " Manifestation" con tain not one single feature worthy of notice. In the House of Commons last night leave was obta'ned by Mr. Alderman WOOD to bring in a Bill for the effecting of Improvements in the Metropolis. The necessity for such a measure is well set forth in the evidence taken before a Select Committee of the House of Commons in the course of the last Session of Parliament ; and—presuming that the Bill is based upon the report of that Committee—we earnestly solicit for it the strenuous support of the influential inhabi tants of London, Westminster, Southwark, and Surrey. When it is printed and in the hands of Honourable Gentle men, we shall enter fully into its details, and investigate the importance of the improvements which it suggests. The Paris Journals of Wednesday bring no intelligence from tlto north of Spain of a later date than what appeared in the London Journals of yesterday. Even the conclusion of the interrupted telegraphic dispatch is not given in either the Char te or the itioniteur. Private letters from Bayonne and San Sebastian, of the 11th instant, state that General EVANS has partially suspended operations, till Generals ESPARTERO and SAARSFIELD are near enough to act in concert with him. On the evening of the 10th, after one day of hard fighting, the QUEEN'S troops remained in quiet possession of the field Of battle. Both Christinos and Carlists fought with great gallantry, the former being preceded in the most difficult encounters by a body of Bri tish marines, commanded in person by Commodore Lord JOHN HAY. The most remarkable circumstance con nected with this affair is, that the marines displayed the British—not the Spanish—flag during the engage ment ; thus appearing in the field as a land auxiliary force. General EVANS prevented the British Legion from taking almost any part in the engagement of the 10th, wisely re serving the men for a battle with the enemy on level ground. The marriage of the Duke of ORLEANS with the Princess Of MECKLENBURG-SCHWERIN is said to be definitely arranged. The Princess is 24 years of age, and niece of the Empe::or of RUSSIA. The marriage has been brought about by Prussia, and has received the sanction of the Holy Alliance. It is reported that the King of PRUSSIA is to pay the Princess's dowry—a part of the contract which may be safely left to the superintendence of the Citizen KING. The Princess is a Protestant, and so far the marriage is extremely disagreeable to the French Clergy ; but his Holiness the Pore has granted a dispen sation for the celebration of the nuptials. On Tuesday the Count de LASTRANGES, editor of the Quotidienne, was sentenced to two months' imprisonment, and a fine of two thousand francs, for advocating the justice of the protest of the officers of the 62d Regiment. A Morning Contemporary, commenting upon this prosecution, states the following important fact ;—" Between the 2d of August, 1830, and the Ist of October, 1834, the Paris press was subjected to not less than five hundred and twenty prosecutions, one hundred and eighty-eight of which proved successful. The total amount of penalties_awarded to the political writers of the French capital was 106 years and a half of incarceration ! and four hundred and eleven thousand and five francs in the shape of fines !—not to melition the preliminary seizure of all the copies of the five hundred and twenty guilty or not guilty publications." We defy Europe to furnish in the same period proofs of do mestic tyranny which will equal this. The latest advices from Madrid are of the 7th instant, but they arc of no importance. Annexed are a fcw extracts from the French Papers :-- The Message,- says the marriage of the Duke of Orleans and the Princess of Mecklenburg will be celebrated, it is saki, at Compiegne with great splendour. The Duke de Choiseul will set out at the end of May for Ludwigsburgh, where he will marry the princess as proxy. The Count de Flahaut will go to receive the future Duchess of Orleans, and accompany her till her arrival at Cornpeigne. The Duchess of Orleans will next reach the bridge at Kehl, where she will dismiss her German attendants, and be sur rounded only by the members of the household which is form ing fur her. Surh are the reports. The Court of the Tuileries, it is said, expresses much grati tude to the King of Prussia for having greatly contributed to the success of the negotiation by his personal influence with M. de Plcssin, Minister of State, and formerly Envoy to the German Diet. M. Bresson, who seems to have acted an important part in the affair of the Legion of Honour, as well as M. Plessin, M. Von. Oerthlirg, Minister of Mecklenburg at Paris, has re ceived from the King of the French the Cross of Commander of the Legion of Honour, and the title of Count, as a recom pence for his endeavours to promote the success of the affair. Lastly, it is said that the portion of the Princess Helen will be 500,000 francs, without the trousseau, and that the Prince se cures to her a considerable dowry.—Jouriicil du Conunerce, March 15. FRENCII FUNDS—Pasta, Mum] 15. Five per Cents., 107 f. sc. 106 f. 85c. 75c. 80c. Four per Cent., Wf. 50c. I tree per Cents., 711 f 15c. Bank Actions, 2,422 f. .`"..oe. ttentc de Naples, 9Sf. 65c. 60c. Roman Five per Cents., 112. Spanish Actives, 281.4 `27li 28. Spanish Differes, 12 1 I Spanish Passives. 71004. Belgian I oan, Five per Cents., 103 1 4. Brussels Society, 1,550 f. 1,55 ff Portuguese Loan. Three per Cents, 32 3 4 3 /4 si Haytian Loan, 260 f. EXCIIANGE LONDON. One rnonth, pal•er, 25 , .. 40c ; money, 25' 3rit; months, paper, 25f. 20c. ; monvy, 25f. 20c —Court Authentiome. • LAST PRICES. Five per Cents., 10fif. 9:.c. Three per Cents 79f :iee. Itank Actions, 2,.1 - 22f 50c. Rente de Naples, 93f. 90c. Roman Five per tents., 102 Belgian Loan, 103t4. Brussels Bank, 1,17 a 50e. Pcrtugucse Three per Cents,, 39 Haytian Loan, 3COf. Spanish Actives, 21. Sp:mish Passives. 734. Differes, 9. New Differes, 1I N. Brussels and German Papers of the latest dates have been received. There arc rumours of a change in the Bel gian Cabinet. In the Chambers the only subject discussed is the Budget, every item in which is scrutinized with a severity that would delight the heart of the Hon. and honest Member for Middlesex. There is no news in the German Journals. Baron Amschel Mayer de Rothschild, head of the 6rm at Frankfort, is dangerously ill of the stone, and fears are entertained for his life. GENTLEMAN.—The only way to be a gentleman is to have the feelings of one ; to be gentle in its proper accep tation, to be elevated above others in sentiment rather than si tuation, and to let the benevolence of the heart be manifested in the general courtesy and affability of the demeanour.— Horace Smith. INDEPENDENCE OF TEXAS.—By the packet ship Wellington, which has arrived at Plymouth, we last night received American papers to the 21st, from which we learn that in the House of Representatives of the United States, on the 18th, by unanimous consent, Mr. H o w ar d, f rom the Committee on Foreign Affairs, to whom the President's Message, and sundry memorials in relation to Texas were re ferred, reported the following resolutions, which were read and laid on the table:—" Resolved, by the House of Representa tives of the United States, that the independence of the Government of Texas ought to be recognised." " Resolved, that the Committee of ways and means be directed to provide in the Dill for the civil and diplomatic expenccs of the Go vernment, a salary and outfit for such public agent as the Pre sident may determine to send to Texas." Several respectable tradesmen in Wakefield, not having their wits about them, have, within the last few days, been duped by a young fellow, about 24 years of age, assum ing the name and address 'of Mr. Stocks, Park-place, Leeds. He gave out that he was immensely rich, and was desirous of investing a portion of his property in some profitable specula tion; and that part of his wealth had been laid out in buying a beautiful estate a few miles from Wakefield, for which he bad given 20,0001. This braggadocio got him some connec tions, to whom he communicated his intention of erecting an iron-foundry at a cost of 11,0001., whose furnaces were to out blaze all others in the town, and would, no doubt, be of great be nefit to his less fortunate neighbours. Well, having got a footing, he must keep up appearances, and his orders were freely given to his now friends. A respectable shoemaker was first swindled out of two pairs of Wellington boots, with spurs ; then a linen draper, of upwards of 121. worth of goods ; next the tailor, whose cut pleased so well, that he was ordered to make 401. worth instanter. Other tradesmen were called into play to decorate the person of this upstart ' • but his change of residenc e and name made the boot-makers, hosiers, &c., keep a sharp look-out after him, and a deputation was sent to Leeds to make inquiry about this Mr. Stocks, of Park-place. While inquiry was instituting in Leeds, the hero at Wakefield was preparing for a bolt, and would certainly have been off, but for the interruption of certain impatient creditors, who having found him out, recovered nearly the whole of their property, and left the Park-place gentleman in a most destitute and for lorn condition.—Leeds Mercury. H OUSE OF I,I7RDS-(THIS DAY.) WL§IIART V. WILSON. Their Lordships were occupied this morning in hearing Counsel on behalf of the appellant. The details of the case, which related to a marriage settlement, were not of the slightest public interest. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY. DEAL, MARCH 16.—Wind N. E.—No arrivals. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 16.—Wind E. N. E.—Arrived the Alice, Wood, from flamburg,h, leaky, having struck on the Galloper, bound to New York. DARTMOUTH, MARCH 16.—Arrived the Augustus, Carr, from Calcutta. FALMOUTH, MARCH 15.—Arrived the Charlotte, Wylie, from Bermuda. CLYDE, MARCH 14.—Arrived the Lavinia, —, from Oporto. • HULL, MARCH 15.—Arrived the Valentine, Crosby, from St Michael's. GRIMSBY, Mitaen 14.—The Perseverance from Lynn to the Clyde, has put into this port leaky. The Georgina, Wylie, from Aux Cayes to Hamburgh, was totally wrecked near the Tcxel on the 9th inst. ; crew saved. The Vatbalia, from Batavia, arrived in the Tcxcl very leaky; 500 bags of Rice thrown overboard. The Koningocr, Neberlunder, arrived at Cadiz on the sth of Nov., with loss of masts, bound to Batavia. The Ohio (whaler), of Dunkirk, has been condemned and sold, at Monte Video. Fishguard, March 15, 1837. Sig—Having observed a paragraph going the round of the papers, stating that an American Packet was totally lost on Friday, the 24th ult., between three and four miles north of Newport, situated seven miles E of this place, therefore, I think it necessary to inform you, that I have made every in quiry, and find the whole to be a gross fabrication, as no such vessel has been lost. I have just learnt a letter has been sent to you, signed John Haynes, giving a description of the loss of the above-named vessel. Now there is no such person of that name residing at Newport, or in its neighbourhood. I am, Sir, your most obedient servz.nt, THOMAS EVANS, Lieut. R. N. William Dobson, Esq., Sec., Lloyd's. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOGK. We have received Montreal Papers to the 15th February, from which we extract the following : " On Saturday evening we heard an important and interest ing rumour, with respect to our political affairs. We give the rumour as we got it : " It would seem that after the intelligence of Lord Gosford's second failure had reached London, Mr. Roebuck waited on Lord Melbourne, to ascertain his intentions in regard to La Grande Nation Canadien ; that he found the Noble Premier awakened to a sense of French Canadian loyalty, and deter mined to commit our enlightened patriots to the tender mer cies of the Imperial Parliament. " We understand that letters are in town which state that the King has given express orders that no official correspon dence is to pass from the Colonial Office to Canada, without his personal knowledge. It is said that the King is highly dissatisfied with the conduct of Ministers in regard to Cana dian affairs, and with the conduct of Lord Gosford and his confrere Commissioners in particular." The Quebec papers to the 12th of February have the fol lowing : " The Canadian of last night says, that the inhabitants of Upper Canada are now signing a petition to the Congress of the United States for the abolition of the duties on the agricul tural produce of t ipper Canada into the United States. The Canadian says, it is singular that the British colonies should be reduced to the necessity of imploring favours from a Foreign Power ; and adds, it is the duty of the Mother Coun try to carry into effect such an arrangement." They write from Madrid of the 7th inst., that dispatches had been received from the Commandant of Aragon, stating that a numerous faction had been defeated at Graces. An other dispatch from Cordova also states that the faction of La Mancha, commanded by Palillos, was also defeated at Los Pod roches. _ From Barcelona they write, that General Serrano assem bled, on the 3d inst., in the Palace, the political chiefs and the military administration, with a commission of the people. The motive of their being called together was to devise means to obtain immediately a million of reels, which were necessary for important operations, on the eve of being executed in the pro vinces against the Carlists ; and that the receipts of the Cus tom-house was to guarantee the above sum. The brave Colonel Niubo has been appointed Commandant of the province of Lerida, which has suffered a long time from the ravages of the Carlists. We have very f e w arrivals, and the American papers re ceived this morning to the 23d Feb. were anticipated yester day by the private letters of the 22 *l ult., which also brought in the Exchange and the price of Bank Shares. FUNDS. The British Funds in the course of yesterday were rather depressed, which was partly owing to the small majority which Ministers had in the Commons on the Church-rates question. The satisfactory result of the Bank meeting yesterday, with a vote of approval passed in favour of the Directors, had the effect to improve Bank Stock from 208 to 210- for the opening. Our speculators in the Spanish Securities are disappointed this morning in not having received farther accounts by the French telegraphs from the north of Spain, of the further proceedings of General Evans. The accounts from Bayonne by the ordinary express, do not communicate information of so late a date as the telegraphic despatch of the 13th instant, received yesterday. Consols closed at 904 for the Account, and 90-h- a for Money, opened this morning at the above prices with little doing as yet ; Exchequer Bills, 26 28 prem. ; India Bonds, 25 27 prem. ; Bank Stock shut. In the Foreign market, Spanish Active, which left off yes terday at 27i 3, live receded to 27 to 3, owing to their com ing lower from Paris, as well as to no further accounts being received from General Evans ; Passive, 73 ; Deferred, 113 I ; Portuguese, 493 ; 3 per Cents., 321 33 ; Dutch 21 per Cents., 53a 3 ; Colombian, 231 243 ; Mexican, 241. A slight shock of an earthquake was felt at Quebec on the 9th February ; no damage, however, had been sustained. HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK. Consols have continued during the whole of the morning at 903 for the Account—alternately buyers and sellers at the above price—Money, 903.3. There is not a feature in the market worth observation. Money conattes rather scarce for commercial purposes. Exchequer Bills, 27 25 26 pm. ; India Bonds, 27 26 pm. ; Bank Stock shut. In the Foreign Market little doing. Spanish active was done at 27, at present 273, which is a fall of one per cent. since yesterday morning. Portuguese maintain the prices of 50 ; Three per Cents., 32} ; Dutch Two and a Half per Cent., 5311; Columbian, 24k. THREE O'CLOCK. Consols for the Account, 908. PESTIL—The sentence on the young State crimi nals, of which so much has been said, is published. Two are condemned to ten years' imprisonment, one to one and a half year's imprisonment, and one acquitted. The sentence, which is for' blasphemy, and propagating revolutionary principles," will come before the higher Court, which will probably confirm it. —Hurnburgh Papers, March 14. The Berlin papers never mention the name of Lord Londonderry, now that he is in Prussia, without adding that he is a " General of Cavalry." This is characteristic enough in a country where all distinctions arc referable to the place the party fills upon the army-list. Letters from Lyons represent the state of the silk trade in that city as most deplorable. Many of the manu factories are said to be partially stopped, and crowds of work men in rags fill the public places and court-yards of the rich, demanding alms ; there being no fewer than 30,000 beings in Lyons who, on rising in the morning, have no other means of obtaining a morsel of bread. In a trial last week at the Chelmsford Assizes, one of the stolen articles which was produced in Court was a pair of nut-crackers, remarkable for their antiquity. They bore date 1630, and the following inscription was engraven upon them : " Vse me wel and yov 81:11 se Vovr teeth shall hove the vse of me." They have been in the family upwards of a century. According to the Hanover Gazette, a marriage is likely to take place between Prince George of Cambridge and the eldest of the Princesses of Lippe Bukebourg. The Prince is only 18 years of age. The Earl of Durham, it is now said, is not on the eve of quitting St. Petersburgh for England. His Lordship is, however, expected to leave the Russian capital during the summer to visit the baths of Baden. The Berwick Tories have, to the number of 121, signed a requisition to Mr. Richard Hodgson, brother of Mr. Hodgson Hinde, M. P. for New castle, to:come forward there in place of their present Tory Member, Mr. Bradshaw, who, according to his own party, does not represent the borough at all. MEMBER FOR KENDAL.—On Thursday evening there was a strong muster of the Committee appointed by the Liberal electors for the purpose of fixing upon a proper person to represent this borough. John Richards, Esq., was called to the chair, and after some preliminary arrangements, the fol lowing gentlemen were severally submitted to the choice of the committee, after eulogiums upon their characters and inde pendence, and the production of testimonials in favour of some of them, of the most flattering nature :—Mr. Pigot (a Hamp shire gentleman), Charles Standish, Esq., George William Woud, Esq., of Manchester, Richard Moorsom, Esq., of Airy Hill, near Whitby, Thomas Falconer, Esq., of London, Sa muel Gregson, Esq., of London, and Colonel Williams, of Liverpool. Mr. Wood and Mr. Moorsom were the only gen tlemen who had any considerable number of votes. Mr. Wood obtained a majority, and consequently the united exertions of the committee will be used to promote his return.—Kendal Mercury. - Yesterday morning, as the Northampton coach was proceeding up St. John's -street, a little boy, about four years of age, was killed in consequence of the coach door flying open. The poor little fellow was thrown under the hind wheel, which, passing over its chest, it instantly expired. Th e mother of the child, who was an inside passenger, with an in fant about ten months' old on her lap, was proceeding to Ket tering to meet her husband. Her feelings, on seeing her child a lifeless corse, may be conceived. The carelessness of not seeing that coach doors are properly secured when closed, is highly reprehensible. SPAIN. the Royal British and Marine Artillery, and that t; f tile Bri i t SAN SEBASTIAN, Marten 10, 11 r. m. —A t thiT e this morniing ed Legion, marched out, and proceeded to the foot of fied post of Alza. Immediately after day-light they arrived t the top of that eminence, and by a well-directed fire dislo,4g:d the l enemy from various houses they had occupied ; and aftei -vv ! s fired upon and drove the Carlists from a small redoubt .149 had on the edge of a wood. At half past six A.m. the important position of Ametz a g ana was taken by General Chichester's brigade of the British Le gion, without firing a shot. The Carlist troops in the plaae abandoned it on perceiving the British troops mount in g the height. This is a most important acquisition, and will nog be held. The parapets and ditches by which it is surrounded , rendered it capable of a most obstinate defence. The re all spacious barracks for the accommodation of a vei . v large bod; of men; these barracks, or guard-rooms, are what i s cane( splinter-proof, being tiled, and moreover covered with thicl planks. There are regular guard-beds for the men. This point having been secured, the heights of Garlx.Nra, am what is, I believe, called La Altura de la Yenta, were c arried as well as a very high rocky hill beyond, which commands t" high road from Oyarzun to Astigarrag - a, on which the enem: have a strong position. The British foot and marine at-tiller) did good service during the day. Some excellently-directo spherical case-shot were thrown into a parapet and a woo( where the Carlists were assembled in great numbers ; and de tachments of sailors and marines from the different men-of war and men-of-war steamers were most efficiently employe, on the rocky hill and the Altura de la Venta above described It was a truly gratifying sight; the blue-jackets brought U a long six-pounder bodily on their shoulders, slung upG spars ; the carriage was brought in like manner, whilst number of the remainder of the men carried the ammuvitior Commodore Lord John I-lay directed these operations perzroi ally with his usual coolness and judgment ; and he was cm,' zealously seconded by Captains Henderson, of the Phaini) Dacres, of the Salamander, and the Honourable F. Pelham, of the Tweed, accompanied by officers 4 their respective ships. Throughout this fatiguing da these gallant officers wrought with that energy an judgment for which British naval officers are so eirn neatly distinguished. The Royal Marine battalion, for was on the field in reserve ; their appearance and bearing wei admirable, and on one or two occasions, when their servio were-likely to be brought into play, they showed the utmo alacrity. Both the British seamen and marines advanced mull the British flag. To revert to the rocky hill. A very heavy fire has bee kept up during the day, upon and from that point The 71 regiment of th British Legion were ordered up to defend i which it did most gallantly. I regret to say that six officer of that regiment are wounded, and several men—l think abor thirty. Amongst the former, I fear Lieutenant (or Captain Duncan is mortally wounded, The Royal Marine Artillery, also, was actively employ( at this point. Lieutenants Clapperton and Muttlebury, 4 this distinguished corps, are wounded; not however severer; I believe. The former was hit in three parts of his body. The number of wounded is considerable. There had bee 36 British (including two sailors) brought into town, ai 554 Spaniards, at six o'clock this evening, at about whii time I left the field ; and many more were then being brougl in. I should think that altogether there must be about sew hundred. A great majority of the wounds are, howeve slight. Mr. Randolph, midshipman (passed for lieutenant late of the Castor, and attached to Lord John Hay, w sharply struck in the thigh by a spent ball. At nightfall the firing ceased. Our right rests upon tl River Urumea, commanded by the important post of Ametz gana; and on our left on the rocky hill commanding ti high road from Oyarzun to Hernani. General Evans re- mains for the night at Alza. He directed the operations the day with his accustomed gallantry and military talent. The Carlists must have lost many more men than the Chri Linos. The spherical case-shot thrown by our artillery in a wood through which they were advancing and retread' successively must have killed and wounded great number , the road to Hernani was covered with wounded being carri( to the latter place. IRELAND. DUISLIN, MARCH 15• GENERAL ASSOCIATION.-At the usual weekly meeting ye terday of this Association, the principal subject of discussion lc the following resolution, which was eventually withdrawn the mover, Mr. Doheny, at the suggestion of Mr. Barrett I " That this Association immediately record its convittic that the public Newspapers, in attributing to a Christian I late language so insulting and irritating as that contained it reported speech of the Lord Bishop of Exeter, have offer an outrage to the people of Ireland, degraded the name of ligion, and have imputed to the Right Reverend Prelate, implication, the very charge which is reported to have be made against the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin." The Justice-rent was announced, for the past week, amount to 1831. Is. 7d. Captain R. Macnamara was admitted to bail yesterday fore the Magistrates of the Head Office of Police, the 1 mainder of his sentence of imprisonment having been remitt by the Lord Lieutenant. The fine of 1001. was paid to t High Sheriff—the security entered into was himself in 1,001 and two sureties in 5001. each to be of the peace for sev years. Capt. Macnamara seemed to be very much debilitat from illness. We copy the following paragraph from the Mail, the org of the Orange party :—" Some failures are reported to he taken place in this city in the course of yesterday and to-di and public credit has sustained a considerable shock. Tral we believe, was never at st) low an ebb in Dublin as at t present moment ; and amongst the lower classes, particular the poor weavers in the Liberty, distress prevails to an uni ralleled extent. The want of a Court to which any of t nobility and gentry can resort, and their consequent abseil from the Irish metropolis at this, the usual period of their I journ in Dublin, is one of the primary causes that has led the universal depression of trade, and the extensive misery tI prevails ;' but doubtless the reaction produced by the ruinc system which first overrun the whole country, with a fore circulation, and which circumstances made it necessary shut be followed by a sudden contraction, is not without its eel in producing the evil so sensibly felt." Lady Canning, we regret to hear, died on We nesday night. This event creates a vacancy in the borough Warwick, the lion. Charles Canning bring now called to t House of Lords as Viscount Canning. 'The Tories have, it is said, resolved to put the ll' H. T. Liddell in nomination for the vacancy created in No' Durham by Sir H. Williamson's retirement. Col. Becks' is mentioned as likely to be the Liberal candidate, of whose st cess there can be no doubt. ~ yu Sir Rufaiie Donkin left town yesterday, on a vi to his constituents at Bcr*ick. The report circulated in the papers, of a mania between Lord Bruce and Lady Mar, Herbert, is contradic t REV. Dn. BLOMBERG.—Among the many 11 ' 1 and distinguished personages who have been relieved ro, those most tormenting maladies, gout and rheumatism, bY, t,' celebrated medicine, " Blair's Gout and Rheumatic the Rev. Dr. Blomberg, of Misperton-hall, Yorkshire, C lla . lain to the King, and Rector of Cripplegate, London, ha" derived the most essential benefit himself, and witnesse d same of several cases in his neighbourhood, has signified' intention of strongly recommending them among his Oil rous friends, and has given the proprietor permission to re . any of the nobility or gentry to him, should they be suffer' from these disorders, and in any doubt as to the effieacY this medicine. FAMILIES RESIDING IN THE COUNT II / are supplied with TEAS and COFFEES at the WHOLE SA • PRICE for CASH : Black.. 2s. Od. 2s. 4d. 2s. Bd. Bs. 3s. 6d. 4s. 4s. 6cl• Green..3s. Bd. 4s. Od. 4s. Sd. ss. ss. 6d. 6s. 7s. od. Coffee, is. 6d. Is. Bd. Is. 10d. Ps. ..Finest Mocha, 25 ; When the order exceeds £lO, the Carriage is Pala' G. T. M ANSEL L, and CO., Wholesale Tea Dealers, 2, Bucklersbury, Cheapside• SILVER EDGED PLATED D ISK S T. COX SAVORY offers for selection, arranged in his Rooms, a most extensive variety of CORNER DISHES. c( Set of Four varies in price from Seven to Ten Guineas. T,: SAVORY, Working Goldsmith, Silversmith, and l i nteD in 47, Cornhill, London. N.B.—The Handles are made to remove from the C•vers , w o h l may be used as Dishes ; thus the Set will form Eight Dishes' - required. BIRTHS. On the 15th inst., Mrs. Geo. Faulk ° fa* ner, of Bedford-row , v On the 15th inst., in Guildford-street, Russell-squa re, the of H. W. Ravenscroft, Esq., of a daughter. On the 16th inst., the lady of H. F. Talbot, Esq. , 0f Lad Abbey, Wilts, of a daughter. MARRIE. On the 16th inst., at St. Matthew' D s, Brixton, Edward JO Esq., of Birchanger Place, Essex, to Miss Bird, of Brixton. o o f On the 11th inst., at St. George's, Camberwell , Mt ' Allan, to Harriet Adela, second daughter of Thomas AdanD." • of Camberwell. c ot On the 13th of August last, Joseph Penny, Esq., of L atin g. Van Diemen's Land, to Louisa, fourth daughter of the late Abbott. DIED. - of 101,51 On the 15th inst., at Fir Grove, North Brixton , R andl e i Esq., barrister-at-law, and a bencher of the Hon. SoeitY - Middle Temple. On the 16th inst., at Putney, Elizabeth, the wif e of Wip. C croft, aged 78. Ike' On the 15th inst., in Chapel-street, Grosvenor-place'berf Alexander Douglas, Esq., brother of the Marquis of Qne e li a lgr' On the 14th inst., in Duke-street, St. James's, William a 31 , Simpson, Esq., of the Inner Temple, barrister-at -law, Esq ' o f e 0 On the 15th inst., Anne, wife of C. Newberry, Esci' stone, Surrey, and Mincing-lane London. Sayers / On he r 14th inst., in Pour's-Place, aged 28, James ner, Esq. - - 1ir 413 On the 12th inst. at Newport, Isle of Wight, Sir Ric s a , c erl I sett, for more than forty years a Maistrate of Hampshire', 2 0, v On the 15th inst., in Woburn-pace, Russell-square, Al• of John Whishaw, Esq. of Be dford On the 15th inst., aged 64, Henry Hurle, Esq ., 1 and Ramsbury, Wilts. 0 / I ntl' On the 9th inst., at Stoke Guildford, Mrs. Mary A merly of Camberwell. °pa 11 ' On the 14th inst., at Clapham - rise , Mr. Benjamin - a , aged 26. gin On the 26th of January last, B. C. Patey; Esq., at Jamaica. f r London: Printed and Published by I‘lll-11D0 YOq''tTe 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand , ' 0 of Zsiiddlesex.—Friday, March 17, 1887.