The Sun. — London, England, 1837-04-03 00:00:00

GRAND EXHIBITION AT GHENT. (From the Gardener's Gazette.) The fete to commemorate the inauguration of the new real for the exposition of plants, named the Cassino, took itace on the 10th inst. ; and, perhaps, in the annals of be ta,/ and floriculture never was an exposition so worthy the atf .ention of an amateur as the 56th. The judges assembled oil the 10th were all strangers to the town of Ghent, in or der to insure as impartial a decision as possible ; their =lmes, after the alphabetical order of the towns from whence tlEey came, were as follows : Alost—Messrs. Boone and Nooy. Antwerp —Messrs. De Caters, De Wolf, De Knyff, Par. • theou De Von, and Dr. Somme. Bruxelles—The Duke D'Ursell, Messrs. Rcinders, and Van der Maolen. Courtrai--Messrs. Callewaert and Landas. Douai—Mr. Taffin. Enghein—Mr. Parrnontier. Frankfort-on-Main —Mr. Rinz, jun. Liege--Messrs. Makay and Mogen. Lille—Mossrs. Lestiboudois, and Miel'cz aid SIT. at. London—Mr. Hugh Lowe. Louvain—Messrs. Donkelaer Dudekin, and the Viscount de Schrymaekar de Dorms .el. Paris--Messrs. Abbe Belles(; and Poiteau. Tournay—Sir Henry Oakes , Baronet. Vienna—Mr. Rosenthal], je A slight glance at the ab , ove names, will serve to show the great mass of botanie.t.Al knowledge assembled on the occasion. In addition to the above named judges, a com mission of four other gentlemen—Messrs. Buck Van der tieesch, Verschoffelt, Ff.oop, and Maddison, were charged by the society to do the h onours of the salon, and deputed to give the necessary explanations concerning the plants to the judges, but being real .dents, had no vote. When one of the judges tried for the prize, as it happened often during the judgment, he also could not give a vote for his own plant or collection. Tv renty-nine judges answered to their srimes ; and in a salon of 314 ft. long, along which 5,300 plants were arranged in their respective collections, the judgment took place— and on the I-2thinst., surrounded on all sides by flowers ar plants, with a band of music con cealed under the stern I e of flowers, 320 persons sat down to table, to dinner. Mr. Van Crombrugge presided, and the most perfect cordialit y and harmony reigned during the evening, throughout w iiich, champagne, flowed like water, and many toasts were, given ; two, to the health of the Duke d'Ursel, and to our worthy President, met with uni versal acclamations. In the morning of • the 12th, the distribution of prizes took place in the gree it rotunda ,of the University, in the F resence of all the fa shionable world, when each successful candidate received' his; medal from the hands of the Presi dent, and were receix red with acclamations by a gratified rublic, to whom a Floricultural exhibition affords always much pleasure in the - capital of Flanders. Amongst the collri;tions of plants sent to the exposi tion, the three colic ctions of Mr. Van der Maelen, of Bruxelles, consisting of 214 plants, sent from Bruxelles by means of two immesise waggons, deserves particular no tice, as arriving with 'tittle or no damage, and as uniting some of the scarcest and most valuable plants in exist ence. His colleetior, of plants in flower were magnifi cent ; his orchidm wi me the first of the kind ever seen at r winter exposition, being for the most part in flower, and his Lwlia anceps, Neottia spec nova, just arrived fom Brazil, the rssicidium, pictum, and ampliatum, at ti acted the regards of the judges, as bring plants of a fu r erior kind ; and his collection of Cacti Were extremely to be admired. T'ae Botanical Society at Antwerp, sent a beautiful collection of Camellias in flower, and were re warded with a gold medal. The collection of Mr. Meek lynk, one of our oldest and most indefatigable amateurs, at tracted universal attention, and received the unanimous votes of the judges for a gold medal. An enkianthus quinqueflora, of five feet in hight, and cuamibile, an epi frnedium grandiflorum, with 150 flowers, Brassia laceana, ijygopetalum makai, with two stalks-of flowers, Camellia Campbelli and Atidsersoni, amar ) ilis Mecklynkii, and Rho dodendron Meeklynkii, were amongst the' plants sent by this eistin g uished amateur. Amongst the plants difficult to force, the peeania officiomlis fore rubro, in".flover, was very remarkable, and, from its difficulty, in the opinion of many, merited a prize in preference to the lilium croceurn, to which the prize was given. , In the 'collection a Camellias belonging to Mr. De Ryuck, a Reticulate, five feet high, having eight flowers open, the Lactic, the . Wadie, and the Delicatissirna, of six Let height, were remarkebie. This collection, consisting of 330 Carnelian in flower, was the most beautiful sight possible, both for the size of the plant and for the Coup tt'cel which it ofered. The collection of Mr. D'Hane de l'otter, consisting also of nearly 200 'Camellias in flower, cad amongst which the following plants :—Tricolor of Van tsieboll, L'o,;llolettca, and the Trinmphans, attracted the uttenttoll or all amateurs. These two collections .being nearly of equal merit, the Judges unanimously decreed a medal to each. A superb eollsction of rare plants, sent by Mr. Alexan asr Ver.5.1:1ff...b, of Ghent, gained a gold medal ; amongst v-tich there were to be rernarkca, the Camellias, Grand rrederick, Floy, Azalea indica ignesa. A . eorection of plants was also sent by Messrs. Booth, of trnburgh ; anti- on a small table with a suitable inscrip t wer placed the fie, simile of the 45 plants which figured at the first exposition which ever took place at Ghent, during the year. ISO 9 ; the idea was happy, a,lrving to point out the progress which floriculture has made since that period. In fact, the town of Ghent Jas made gigantic strides in floriculture, and, now that our new local is completed, it is to be expected that more exhibitions will take place. The causes for the great advances which Ghent has made, and is still mak ing, arise from the aristocracy not being above sell ing, exchanging, and buying themselves flowers ; and rlso hi mixing at public dinners with the -commercial, gardesers. Nothing could be more agreeable and praise worthy than to see some of the- richest and proudest indtviduars on the continent partaking of a dinner with the humblest Ghent gardener ; and if this system could be fol lowed in England, floriculture would be the gainer by t sere is no reason why this should not be ; -if our aristo cracy are not ashamed on a race-course to bet and to re clive money from the greatest blacklegi in existence, why shotld they obj, , ct to associate with individuals whose pur suits arc harmless, and whose ir - acliral botanical Ipow- I..dge, would benefit them much more than listening to many learned professors, whose only knowledge of botany it derived from books, a id whose theory when brought to I).2ar upon agriculture or gardening, would turn out a com plete Exiture. Ghent, March 22, 1937. W. MADDISON. THE EDGEWARE-ROAD MURDER. The defence made by the prisoner Greenacre regarding the accidental death of Mrs. Brown, brings to the recollec t ()n the case of Theodore Gardelle, who, about the year 1790, was tried and executed for the murder of the land lady of the house in which he resided in Leicester -street, Leicester-square. The accused resided in an attic, and, nn the morning of the death of the female, as appears from his subsequent confession and defence, she went up stairs to his roJrn, when he desired her to send her servant for tome snuff to the Haymarket. On her refusal, angry words ensued, and he stated that, having gently pushed her, she fell down stairs backwards, when, being greatly alarmed, he wont to her assistance, and found her dead. Being alone in the house, and fearful of being accused of her murder, he resolved upon secreting, her, and for this purpose took her body up to his room, informing the servant on her return that her mistress had left the house suddenly, and gone out of town on an emergency. At his leisure he cut up the body into separate portions, which he deposited in his boxes and the loft of the house, intending to take them away separately, in order the more easily to escape detec tion. The friends of the landlady at length became alarmed at her prolonged absence ; but although every inquiry was made, nothing was elicited to attach suspicion to Gardelle until the attention of the parties was drawn to a strong smell issuing from the attic in his occupation, on searching which they found different portions of the 'mutilated body in an advanced state of decomposition. The unhappy man was taken into custody, when he made a full confession of thl above particulars, but denied' his guilt of her murder. The facts of her death through his instrumentality being, however, clearly proved, he shortly after suffered the ex treme penalty of the law at Tyburn, affirming his innocence of intending her death unto the last. , There seem to be now three Liberal candidates for the representation of Knaresborough, viz., Mr. Rich, who has t rice contested the borough ; the Hon. Charles Langdale (brother of Lord Stourtcn and Sir Edward Vavasour), whose own authority we bare for stating that he is a candidate ; and Mr. Massey Hutchinson, a gentleman from London, formerly at the bar. It is earnestly to be hoped that one of these can didates will quit the field, otherwise the return of one Tory candidate, and possibly of two, will be certain. We cannot pretend to say which of the candidates ought to retire, as we bar conflicting statements on the point of the order in which ttley offered themselves.—Leeds Mercury- Mr. Gully has issued an address to his constituents of Pontefract, during the past week, wherein he expresses his resolution to resign the honour of representing that ancient borough.—Leeds Mercury. Sir W. Molesworth is in his 27th year, and sue c'eded his father, Sir Aiscott, and seventh Baronet, Dec. 30, 1323. The family of Molesworth anciently resided in the counties of Northampton and Bedford, where they flourished in the reigns of Edward I. and 11. Sir Walter de Molesworth attended King Edward 1., in his expedition to the Holy Land, and was Sheriff of Beds and Bucks; his descendants were of great note and considration, and at length the dignity of Ba ronet was conferred on two branches of the family, nearly at the same time, both of these being zealous in favour of the re volution. Af;;OLITION OF CHURCH-RATES. DEFEAT OF THE TORIES. (Abridged from the North Cheshire Reformer of Fiday.) One of the largest public meetings ever assembled in the town of Macclesfield was held on Monday in the great roam at the Town Hall, for the purpose of considering the xpediency of petitioning the Legislature in favour of the "_"&inisterial measure for the abolition of Church-rates. Not less than 2,000 persons were present, and many were out side the doors, unable to obtain admission. On the motion of Mr. RATHP.ONE, seconded by Mr. PICKERING, the Mayor of the borough, WM. BROC KLE-. HURST, Esq., was unanimously called to the Chair. The MAYOR opened the proceedings. Mr. OLDHAM moved the 'first resolution. It has been urged that to mix up religion with politics .is unseemly. But suppose I happen aese have been born in a land where religion and politics ate already mixed up—where I find that the mixture bele taken place long before my birth. If then it be wroeig to mix religion and politics , I ask is it wrong to entl.eavour to unmix them ?—(Cheers.) If an endea vour to render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's, be an error, then I stand before you as as erroneous subject.—(Hear, hear, hear.) The object of the meeting was to seek re lief from an imposition called Church-rates, under which themselves and their ancestors had long laboured ; and as at length the voice of reason and justice bad at length pre vailed with his Majesty's Ministers, he trusted that the same voice would prevail amongst his fellow-townsmen. Uproar and confusion his soul detested ; for if a principle could not stand upon its own merits, and upon the argu ments of its friends, it was unworthy of maintenance, and it ought to be repudiated. But the meeting would this day be shewn that the Dissenters of England were standing on no false ground—that, on the contrary, their principles were just and true, and for this reason he hoped that all ex pressions of indignation or of favour would be suppressed whilst was discussed a matter of such vital importance to each individual, and in which the peace of the country at large was so deeply involved. The Dissenters, then, came forward not to oppose men but to oppose principles.— DHear, hear.) In the great struggle for re li g ious libert y , issenters had formerly to contend with public preju dice ; but, thank God, that had disappeared. (Hear, hear.) Sometimes it had happened both to them and their ancestors, that they bad to oppose in defence of their rights the powers and authorities then in existence. But now they had not to contend with public Prejudice : and this very day they n ere assembled for the purpose of support ing their cause, which had actually been proposed in the ,Legislative by his Majesty's advisers, by no less an autho rity than the Government of the country.—( Hear, hear.) That Church-rates had hitherto been a fruitful source of disunion and dissension must be apparent to the most ca sual observer. The inhabitants of Macclesfield had seen this to be the case—nay, they bad felt it to be the case, and surely, therefore, Dissenters were entitled to a patient and candid hearing when they pleaded for a redress of their grievances before an enlightened public, and before the li beral Members of the Church of England.—(Hear.) As Christians, the Dissenters wished to live in peace and unity with all men ; butgso long as the system of exacting Church-rates from them was execrated by the public voice, general good would be impossible. It had been argued as an argument in favour of perpetuating Church-rates, that the impost was very slight, not worth consideration. The Dissenters bad from time to time answered that the ques tion with them was not one of degree, but one of princi ple. ILthe principle were once established, the degree fol lowed as a matter of course, to be determined either by popular assembly, or by individuals in the vestry. The Dis senters thought they had been very forbearing in their views and feelings upon this question ; they had not agitated the public mind by meetings, but wished the subject to stand upon Its own merits; he had no hesitation in declaring his convict on that in this enlightened age the exaction of Church-rates could not be much longer continued.—(Cheers.) There fore he would with good temper, with charity, and without the slightest tell the Bishops of Englind that in spite of their combination—(linmense cheering)—to defeat the measure of his Majesty's Ministers—that in spite of the denunciations they had already uttered against it—that in spite of all thbir powers and means of opposition, the mea sure must become the law of the land—(Vehement ap plause)—Church-rates had been condemned by the voice of the country. No prudent Goverament would venture to go against the tide of public opinion. We have been accused of leaguing with certain parties against the Church, and making common interest with certain individuals hearing names which I shell not mention. If this be so, I am afraid the Church has bound us together, and we ask to be released—(Hear, bear)—and we Call upon you to pray for that release ; and we tell the Churchmen that we will have no rest for the soles of our feet till they have re leased us.—(Cheers.) We must be free, and we desire them to he free too.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. Oldham con cluded by moving the first resolution, which declared the cordial approbation of the meeting of the plan recommended to Parliament by his Majesty's- Ministers for the abolition if Church-rates--a plan " at once just and conciliatory, inasmuch as it ,Jill tend to strengthen the Established Church, to relieve the Dissenters, and at the same time to promote the peace of the country and the extension of re iigious freedom." The Rev. SAM UE L BowEN said, I rise with much plea sure to second the resolution. Gentlemen may argue that the system is the best that the wisdom of our ancestors could invent, or the wit of man contrive. It may be urged too that no man has a right , to oppose it—that it has worked well, and that it does work we. But,,after all, the fact. re meins unaltered, and, I will venture to say, unalterable ; the system does not, and it never will, work well in Eng land.—( Hear, hear.) It is not likely that after the present time many vestries or, parishes will pass the rate at all, and in the few parishes in which it may be granted it will be collected with great difficulty, and cause much unseemly contention. Were I a friend to strife and contention amongst neighbours, could I rejoice at the iron entering the very soul of the oppressed, did I wish to hold up the epis copal Church to scorn and hatred, or did I wish to hold up even religipn herself as a thing weak and odious and tyran nical, then I would say, continue the Church-rate system ; then would I petition the Legislature for a continuance of the heartless impost, and against the present measure. But Ido not wish to cherish any such feelings. On the con trary, I wish to put them down ; and I cannot with all the temptations that are held out, consent to sign such a petition. I dare not. I say there are considerable temptations held out to sign Church-rate petitions. When the petition from Puddleton was presented in the House of Lords, some Lord got up and said it was signed by all the respectable inha bitants of that place, and I should not be surprised if another Lord were to get up and say that all who signed such peti tions are respectable.—(Laughter.) Now, we might be tempted by such flattery as this into signing Church-rate petitions ; but although to be considered respectable is very desirable, yet it is still more desirable to be the friends and makers of peace.—(Hear, hear.) I have, then, no doubt that this meeting will unanimously sign the petition which will be sent from this town, to encourage the measure of peace and the men 'of peace.—(Cheers.) Inasmuch as every one must judge for himself, no one can say Church rates are imposed for the support of true religion. If this be the case, divine truth ought to be the same all the world over ; but the fact is, that it is not the same in any two different degrees oflatitude or longitude. We can neither read nor travel, without finding that what is true here is considered false there. If we cross the Tweed, we find that what is right in England is wrong in Scotland ; and going further, that what is right in Scotland is wrong in in Ireland.—( Hear, hear.) Therefore, I say, that because the majority have the might to impose Church-rates, they cannot have the right. I am very happy to see this meet ing so large and so respectable. Perhaps it is the largest and most respectable ever held in the borough of Maccles field, and I rejoice it is assembled to pray the Government that heavily taxed Englishmen be lighter taxed—that it is not assembled to oppose our fellow-citizens, men as honour able as ourselves, but to advocate an honest and upright measure.—(Cheers.) I have read in the newspapers that, persons of my calling have apologised for appearing at meet ings of this description. I have no apology to offer for ap pearing this day, and were the meeting of a-character purely political, I should still have to offer no apology. Were it purely political I conceive that I have as much undoubted right to appear here for myself, for my children, for posterity, for my country, as any other man.—(Hear, hear.) Let there not be a political Church in the nation, and I would give ten thousand sovereigns if you found one political dis senter.—(Cheers.) I have read long accounts of the dif ferences between- various sects, between the Independents, the Baptists; the Presbyterians and others—they may have been acrimonious, but they never became political.— (Hear, bear.) But the moment these Dissenters came in contact with a certain Church, from that instant they be came political. And the reason is obvious. Do away with the cause and you remove the effect at once—then there will no longer be " political Dissenters." Every man in the kingdom may then be a politician, but not one will be a political Dissenter.—(Hear, hear.) I therefore sup port the Ministerial measure, but we must remember that to bring this power down to its present comparatively mild form, cost our ancestors more tha n we can imagine —that it has caused torrents of the most precious blood in Europe, and in the other three quarters of the world to flow—and shall we then shrink from completing the destruction of so unholy a principle ?—(Loud cheers , a nd cries of " Never, never.") No, never ! If We do we shall richly deserve to he held up to the scorn of the world ;—in the language of the immortal Milton " if we forget at noon after their early plan, let us fear lest the sun should hide himself for ever, and turn his orient steps from our ungrateful horizon justly con demned to be eternally benighted."—(Loud cheers.) As in the world so in Macclesfield, the progress of truth is slow, but as in the world so in Macclesfield, the progress of truth is sure ; therefore we shall leave nothing of these things to our pfasterity, but simply to read of them in books, wondering whelher they are reading tragical fiction or still more tragical facts.—(Loud cheers.) This healing mea sure has made a handle of by a certain party to work upon the fears and upon the bigotry or ignorance of the coun try, and to raise a senseless unmeaning clamour against the honest men who have dared to bring it forward.—(Hear , hear.) My Lord Melbourne, at the head of his Majesty's Administration, is a man of property, and a man of charac ter. The most dear of all things to him, like as it is to every honourable man, is his character, yet this has been shot at by men of desperate fortunes.—( Hear, hear.) But the shield of truth and fair play is proof against them all, and is more dreadful to such men than the iEgis of Minerva herself. In Lord Melbourne and his colleagues I place en tire confidence. Do not from this understand that I ap prove of every measure they bring forward. I differ as widely from them on some measures as any man—we are on these at perfect antipodes, but although I cannot ap prove of all their measures, I believe them to be honest men, and therefore I repose confidence in them.—(Cheers.) After several other speeches bad been made, and an amendment had been moved by Mr. Dickenson, which caused much confusion, The MAYOR. put the question, and announced that the original motion had been carried by a decided majority. Great cheering succeeded this announcement. On the motion of Mr. POTTS, it was resolved that John Broeklehurst, Esq., M.P., be requested to present the peti tion to the House of Commons, and Lord Melbourne that to the Lords. The Mayor then vacated the Chair, and the thanks of the meeting were voted to him, on the motion of Mr. Pickering, seconded by Mr. Joseph Wild, amidst the greatest applause. The proceedings then terminated. CHURCH RATES. • • Church Rates are levied for repairing and cleaning the the Church, chiming the bells, providing bread and wine for the sacrament, washing the surplices, buying dusters, brooms , candles, mats, and so forth. Dissenters have places of worship which they support with their own money. They never call on Churchmen to support their ministers, nor provide their bread and wine, nor buy oil for their lamps, nor pay for their brooms and dusters. Dissenters do not complain that Churchmen adopt what religious service they please, or spend what money they please about it—they complain that Churchmen do net themselves pay their own expenses, but levy a part from their dissenting neighbours. Churchmen say the law compels them to do so, and they are not answerable for the injustice. This is untrue. The law allows but does not compel them. Here is an example. They have an organ and singing boys, which it costs nearly 101. to support. Of this sum the Churchmen subscribe among themselves a part, which the Churchwardens take, and, as their accounts show, pay so much nff the evpenses of the choir. So far is honest—but if it is honest to pay for their own singing, it is-just as honest to pay for their own chiming, and as dis honest to charge it upon Dissenters. If the law allo ws them to subscribe the money for one part of the service, and the Churchwardens to take it, - the law would allow them to do the same with the whole. This would be paying their own debts, which they are not willing to do ; and so they make us's. of a condemned law to shift a part upon the shoulders of the Dissenters. But when a man uses a bad law to opprsss his neighbour, he is bound to take care that he do not himself break the law. The Churchwardens did all the law allowed, when they sent a townsman to prison, without bail, for 17s. 6d., and it is fair to expect they should themselves do all the law requires of them. _ The law requires that when they give in their accounts, they should produce a receipt for every thing they have paid. Mr. Scott did not, when required, produce receipts for several items on Monday. He has broken the law, and the rate-payers have the right and power to strike out the items. They can do this by going up on Monday next, be tween ten and five, and voting that each item objecte.l to be disallowed. Bungay, March 29, 1837. CHURCH PROPERTY. No. 111. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE CHANCELLOR. OE THE EXCHEQUER, &C., &C. Sir—The country is at this, time convulsed in every quarter respecting the Church, and that which should be a clear fountain of peace and goodwill is converted into the muddy pool of discord and strife ; one party contending it can only be upheld their way, the other that these are aim ing at its desecration and destruction ; while calculations and count er-culculatinns arc put forth, which serve only to puzzle and perplex. Under such circumstances it is most important that the subject should be divested of the mys tification in which it is involved, and the real point at issue - clearly understood. In this controvery the doc trines and precepts of the Church have scarcely been al luded to ; and with respect to the essentials to salvation, the creed of the real Dissenter and the Churchman are so nearly the same, that there can be no apprehension for these. The mammon of the Church only is in danger, and it is merely a qUestion of pounds, shillings, and pence, in which it is endeavoured to make the people believe their everlasting happiness is involved : simply it is this. Certain lands and possessions have heretofore been ap propriated to what is called the Church ; but according to the original intention, for the subsistence of the labourers in the Gospel, for keeping up their places of worship, and for their charitable distribution to the distressed. 1 hey are denominated in Scripture " watchmen," by which title can only be understood the active and diligent ;, but certain members of the Church have thought otherwise, and having formed themselves into corporations and associations, assum ing ra.iks and degrees totally unknown to the Gospel, have got to themselves those (now immense) lands and possessions, and are wallowing in luxury and idleness, fulfilling the pro phecy—" HIS watchmen are blind ; they arc all dumb dogs, they cannot bark ; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber ; yea, they are greedy dogs, which can never have enough ; they all look to their own way, every one to his gain from his own quarter," while the real labourers have barely a subsis tence. It is this anomalous state of things that is attacked, and has caused the cry of The Church is in danger !" This system is indeed in danger ; and why ? " The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint , there is no soundness in it." It is fraud and deception in all its ramifications, each one emulation his fellow in manoeuvring for his own advantage, and to defraud his successor ; and well might Lord Howick affirm " that even Bishops were accused of proceedings not creditable to themselves either as Christians or men y' honour." We trust there are yet a few who have not bowed the knee to this Baal ; but we are compelled to admit the general taint of the idolatry. " The Bishop encourages the Dean, the Dean and Chapter smootheth it for the Prebendary, saying, it is ready" for our purposes, and they proclaim those purposes to be sacred ! " A deceived heart has turned them aside, that they cannot say, is there not a lie in my right hand ?" And it is for this mammom of unrighteous ness—this stumbling-block to all religion—this fishing bait of the Devil, that is so greedily swallowed by the clergy, heedless and reckless of the barb that rankles in it—that our Christian community is set together by the ears and plundered. The sum now in dispute is 260,0001. per annum, to obtain which there are two ways—the one at present in contention, and which, if it cannot be carried through, the other, which I will explain, may be tried. It will be equally effective in producing the money, and must receive the support of every one who is really an enemy to the desecration and despolia tion of the revenues of the Church. " By the statute of the 13th Eliz., chap. 10, all Parsons, Vicars, and spiritual persons are prevented from making any conveyance of the estates of their Churches other than for three lives or twenty-one years, so that now, by virtue of this statute, no real composition, made since the 13th of Eliz., is good for any longer term than three lives or twenty-one years, though made by consent of the patron and ordinary, and such compositions are now rarely heard of, unless by authority of Parliament."-2 Blackstone's Cont., 29. By this you will perceive that even with the authority of Parliament, the Church cannot be divested of as estate without a real composition being made for it. Now, in the cases of the estates of Tottenlkall and Finsbury, w hi c h I have laid before you, so far from any composition having been made, the parties who possessed themselves of those estates did not give either a foot of land or the value of one shilling in money ; all that has since been received on account of the Church is what in their rampant rapacity they considered it prudent not to take. Here, then, in a very narrow compass, are two instances of desecration and despoliation, which already amount to nearly two millions sterling, accomplished by the grossest frauds upon Parlia ment ; and there can be no doubt, upon the cases being brought forward, these foul blots upon our Church will be removed by the immediate repeal of both those acts. This will produce a very considerable proportion of the sum re quired ; and if a proper investigation is made into the pro ceedings of bishops, deans, and chapters, prebendaries, and other trustees of Church property, the remainder may be obtained without interfering with that part upon which yo ur calculations have been made. It has not been always by Act of Parliament these iniquities have been sanctioned. The Clergy in general arc well versed in the science of manoeuvring ; but their meanderings can be traced and counteracted. By this mode of proceeding you will exhibit to the country the true friends of the Church ; for there are none who are not interested in the plunder that will not •support you in it, and you place those that refuse in the dilemma of the only alternative, that of acknowledging the power of A CHURCHMAN. DUBLIN.-THURSDAY. Parliament, by these precedents, to appropriate the funds of the Church to any secular purposes that may be judged, proper.—l am, &c. &c. (FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.) A favourable opportunity now presents itself for review. ing the condition of the country. The Parliament is adjourned fora few days, after affording the nation a tole rably intelligible intimation of what may be calculated as the amount of its labours at the end of the Session. In this calculation Ireland sees no ground for cherishing a ' hope that she will derive many benefits this year from the Legislature. On the contrary, those expectations which a view of her own internal state, as well as of the actual con dition of England, taught her to entertain, are likely to be for the present disappointed. This is the more mortifying, inasmuch as our improvement under the auspices of an en lightened Executive for nearly two- years, ought to be an unquestionable guarantee of our right to participate in all the advantages of Reform, even though public opinion throughout the empire did not suggest the immediate adop tion of such a policy. The two measures on which our future improvement and tranquillity seem to depend, namely, Corporate Reform and the settlement of the Tithe question, have made but little progress against the real or pretended apprehensions of the opposing party.. This is indeed any thing but consolatory to a people whose patience is almost exhausted for the unequivocal enjoyment of equal laws and privileges. It is the less so at a period when facts, authenticated by the highest functionaries of the law, proved to demonstration the great national benefits accruing to the en tire community from kindly treatment. For, never did a country exhibit a more bountiful return for the blessings of impartial Government, than has been gathered in Ireland since the commencement of Earl Mulgrave's Administra tion. Nor are these the sentiments and simulated admira tion of a sycophant seeking to sonciliate the friendship of any member of the Irish Government, or to testify his gratitude for any favours already conferred. The writer, as you know, stands independent of all the personages and parties exercising influence in this country, and cannot, therefore, be suspected of such motives. And, holding this position, he ventures to draw fair inferences from facts, many of which are already known to the world and incontrovertibly established by Lord Morpeth and other distinguished Members of Parliament during the present Session. But as these facts have been corroborated, and placed beyond the possibility of perversion by sophistry or falsehood within " one little month," the circumstances that so elucidate them cannot be too often submitted to the tribunal of pub= lie opinion. The Spring Assizes have just terminated, after presen ing, from North to South of Ireland, one of the most bold and striking pictures of the abuses of the adminis tration of justice among the poorer classes of of the community that ever was witnessed. In fact, the light of truth has at length shone brightly on the vitiated condition of society ; and the -last Circuit pourtrays the " evil genius" of Ireland in colours so vivid, as to leave no mistake as to his origin and parentage, or allow further controversy on the cause of the greatest evils that have so long afflicted the social condition of this country. The ides of March have been fatal to more than one usurpation ; and if we rightly observe the current of passing events, and the signs of the times, the downfall of a certain dominant party, whose misdoings are now fully exposed to the light of day, may be dated as finally accomplished during the Spring Assizes of 1837. I have frequently told you that the fountain of justice was polluted here long ago, and that though Reform had reached its source, and purified the origin of the waters, it would take some time to cleanse and make s alubrious all those rivulets that have conveyed the poison to every quarter of the island. The following is a very faint outline of the juridical incidents that are deemed of such importance at the present juncture : The Liberal party had been, during the winter, congra tulating each other on the happy prospects of affairs, evi denced by the absence of crime, in comparison to fOrmer seasons ; nor could the fictions of the Tory press, nor its endeavours to misrepresent this state of things, damp the ardour of their rejoicings. Every one felt convinced that the great body of the Irish people had received some im pulse towards a national and moral improvement as regarded the observance of the law. The faction felt the change, and accordingly, just before the Assizes, began to insinuate that things were not quite so comfortable, and even predicated the crowded state of the gaols and large ca lendars as a contradiction of this boasted tranquillity. The Judges of Assize on the eve of their setting out, were told Of much labour in the way of gaol-delivery ; and therefore such of them as were imbued with principles of the right sort, that is, Tory predilections, oa finding full calendars in some few towns, fell into the illusion that had been can taived to deceive the public. Barons Joy and Foster and Chief Justice Dogherty in particular, trutnpetted forth the immense indications of lawlessness that certain counties presented. They had the candour, however, to de clare their mistake very soon ; for as they proceeded in the discharge of their duties they discovered the trick that had been practiced by the sapient magistracy, and im mediately denounced it, proclaiming their disapprobation of such proceedings. You may be assured the more intelli gent portion of gentry will take a lesson from their Lordships., and that there will be a change, if not a ratting, in their opinions for the future. It is, however, melan choly to find the gentry of a country thus merging the discharge of a most solemn and important duty in feelings of partisanship. Nothing can prove more strongly th , :; spirit of combination which actuates the Tories in everything, when there . is an object in view. Nothing transpired during the preceding six months of this manoeu vre to tap the foundation of Earl Mulgrave's Government of Ireland. Had the scheme succeeded, however, it would no doubt have been palmed upon Parliament as a trium phant refutation of the peaceable state of this country. But fortunately not having succeeded, its failure may be regarded as the most signal triumph to the Liberal cause that has been achieved during the present struggle. Thanks to a few independent Whig judges for this re-ac tion. If there had not been a Moore, a Crampton, a Richards, and a Perrin in the judgment seat, so perfectly regardless of the ascendant faction as to denounce this attempt of the Magistrates to libel our country through the administration of justice, we could not have the uni versal testimony now given by the Judges of Assize of the present state of Ireland. The majority of them, both Whig and Tory, have proclaimed . to the world the follow ing astounding, and incredible, if not so well authenticated, fact, that the magistracy of Ireland, dreading the conse quences to their own ascendancy and misrule of the heal ing policy of the present Government, have endeavoured to frustrate its effects by charging upon the people com mission of crime to an extent and magnitude of which they were found to be NOT GUILTY. Baron Richards and Sergeant Greene detected and denounced their conduct in the Sonth. Chief Baron Joy and Judge Torrens in the North, Chief Justice Dogherty and other Tory Lords of Assize have recorded their observations to the same ef fect. But the language of Torrens, a decided Tory, in Monaghan, is peculiarly entitled to the serious considera tion of the Legislature. In commenting on the nature of an offence brought before him for trial, this learned func tionary says,—" If gentlemen who are on the commission of the peace do not show more discrimination in future, something must be done to put a stop to the sending for ward such cases as this. The f'act of charging this petty squabble as a Whitcboy offence is perfectly ridiculous." Two drunken men had a dispute, in which one of them drew a knife and cut his adversary slightly. The latter, who prosecuted, declared he would not believe his opponent would have pulled out the knife had he not been in liquor ! In Tyrone, some Orangemen were indicted for playing party tunes, to time annoyance of a populous village, and as saulting a policeman who tried to stop them. They were, however, acquitted by a jury of that Orange county, who, to show their discriminations and to illustrate their notions of equal justice, found the policeman, against whom also t h er e was an indictment, guilty of assaulting the Orange men. In both cases, Judge Moore's direction to the jury was, that it was for them to say whether or not the police acted properly in endeavouring to prevent the playing of party tunes among an irritable populace. In Clonmel, six brothers, named Sysaght, were sentenced to transportation for making an improper use of fire-arms, and at an unsea sonable hour, which had been given them to enable them to execute process for the " law Church." The public im pression created by this trial and conviction is, that fire arms are often procured under similar pretexts, while in reality the parties only Want to violate the laws, for the purpose of criminating the innocent peasantry. The first of these facts shows the incapacity of the pre sent magistracy of Ireland to discharge the duty of their station in a manner beneficial to the people ; and will per haps account in some measure for the necessary interference of the Catholic clergy to instruct the people in their social duties as well as in their Christian principles. The other two facts prove to demonstration that there is a faction in Ireland which, notwithstanding its impotency in number and intellect, are determined to contemn the laws, violate the peace, and bring discredit on their country rather than sur render that ascendancy which they can no longer quietly and constitutionally maintain. And the conclusion plainly deducible from the important incidents of the Assizes is, First, that the magistracy of Ireland, or at least a great portion of them, are Tory partizans ready to abuse the power and trust reposed in them for party and factious purposes ; Secondly, that they have lately endeavoured to pervert the administration of justice to political views, by swelling the calendars and encumbering the Judges of As size with the investigation of those trivial offence s which the laws and economy of ' the country direct to be settled at the Quarter or Petty Sessions ; and, 'Thirdly, that nothwith standing those impediments to the amelioration of Ireland, IRELAND. . . . , and the tardiness of the Legislature in passing measures of 1 TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. vital importance to her welfare; she is at this moment more - tranquil than at any former period during six centuries. I shall, in a future communication, detail some of the immediate causes of this last-mentioned satisfactory state of things 4 DUBLIN, APRIL 1. BRITISH SYNIPATHY.—CORPORATE REFORM.—In the Freeman's Journal is published to-day a very long letter, addressed to the Secretary of the Reform Registry Asso ciation, on the amendment proposed by Mr. Crawford to that clause of the Irish Corporation Bill, which gives the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor a veto on the appointment of Sheriffs in certain boroughs. After stating the reasons and principles on which he made the proposi tion, and what was its result, Mr. Crawford, in his pecu liar way, says—" It is a remarkable circumstance that, on the division being called for, the British and Irish Tory Members, with a few exceptions, left the House ; thus per 'mating the Whig Government, and the Whig Members of England, Scotland, and Ireland, to have the undisputed honour and glory of rejecting an amendment based directly on the professed objects they have been contending for, viz.—the granting to Ireland a remedy for the evils of her corporate system, founded on the same principles as those of the Acts which have already passed for England and Scotland.' These are the words of the address. In 1836 Sir Robert Peel moved an amendment to omit these words, and to insert the following For the purpose of applying such remedies as may obviate all just causes of complaint, and to insure the impartial administration of justice.' The original words, pledging the House to assimilation,' were affirmed by a majority of forty-one. So much for Whig consistency." Mr. Crawford complains—with how little justice we will not now stop to inquire—that " Bri tish Liberal Members oppose, or else retire from the support of Irish freedom, except on questions with party association or party supremacy." The Hon. Gentleman towards the conclusion of what may perhaps be considered a sort of bill of indictment against all English Members of Parliament, Whigs, Tories, and Radicals, intimates his de termination to persist, on the 25th of May,in moving for ' the repeal of the Act " bearing on its front the stamp of the Curfew Law of the Norman Conqueror"—the sth and 6th of William IV., c. 48. The division on this question (according to Mr. Crawford) will be a test of British sympathy with Irish grievances We have no room to-day for comment on the peculiar views entertained by the Hon. Member for Dundalk; nor indeed are any remarks necessary, for the question of principles or expediency, in the sense and for ths purposes which Mr. Crawford employs these terms in, has already been fully' discussed in our columns. PUBLIC DINNER TO THE MEMBERS FOR MEATH.— Thursday being the day appointed for the public dinner to the Members for Meath, Messrs. Grattan and Mor gan O'Connell, which was given by the Meath Club, in conjunction with others of the freeholders, the town of Navan was the scene of considerable bustle, more espe cially as the Hon. and Learned Member for Kilkenny was expected to be present. Mr. O'Connell, accompa nied by his son, Mr. Morgan O'Connell, M.P. for Meath, arrived in Navan about three o'clock, and were received by an immense concourse of people, who were most en thusiastic in their reception of the distinguished visitors. Having entered Brady's Hotel, the Hon. Member ap peared shortly afterwards at the windows, from which they addressed the assembled crowd, dwelling especially upon the evils of illegal associations, and beseeching them to use their best exertions to expose the nefarious practices which were calculated to entail such mirery upon all ,who might become the dupes of the designing. • Mr. Henry Grattan, who was in the house at the time, also made his appearance, and joined in earnest deprecation of the system in question. In the speeches of the evening there was nothing - remarkable. Mr. O'Connell repeated that he was trying an experiment. He gave up Repeal, because Mi nisters undertook to do justice to Ireland, but if they do not keep their word, said Mr. O'Connell, " I throw repeal to the winds—l will renew the cry ten times as forcibly as before, and from inevitable necessity it will be irresistible." DREADFUL MURDERS.—COUNTY OF GALWAY—BA RONY OF LONGFORD.—On Saturday morning last this part of our county was thrown into the greatest consternation by the murder of two women of good character. One of the females, the widow of a small farmer named Haignesy, was considered in comfortable circumstances, and resided in the parish of Killoran, near the village of Kiltormer. '[he other resided with her in the capacity of servant or compa nion. At an early hour on Saturday it was discovered that the House was broken open. On some of the neighbouring persons entering the house, the two unfortunate women were found lying on the floor ; the feather bed laid over them, a quantity of fire placed all round the bed, and in contact with the bodies. The body of the widow was burnt in se veral parts, her skull fractured, and the body of her unfortu nate companion was nearly half consumed. An inquest was held, but very little transpired so as to give any clue to the discovery of these most brutal murders ; it was, howe= ver, ascertained that they must have first deprived their victims of life, and then endeavoured to consume their bodies—the fire - was not strong, enounh to effect this part of their design, and the house escaped also. ,The object of the assassins must have been to burn the house, with the bodies of the poor women, so as to make it a matter of doubt whether the inmates might not have lost their lives by the accidental burning of the house ; but an all-wise Providence willed it otherwise.—Evening Mail. THE ATMOSPHERE OF TUNNELS We have been favoured with the following Report on the Atmosphere of Tunnels, founded on Chemical Ana lysis, by Dr. D. B. Reid, F.R.S., M.R.C., Phys. E., who was engaged in the Ventilation of the Houses of Parlia- went : The Leeds and Selby Railway Tunnel, in which the experiments have been made, is 700 yards long, 17 feet high, and about 22 wide. It inclines 1 foot in 300, and is provided with three ventilating shafts, made originally in excavating the tunnel. They are respectively, 23, 22, and 19 yards deep, measuring from the top to the floor of the Tunnel. No fire or machinery is used to promote the ventilation of this tunnel. I have no hesitation, however, in expres sing my conviction, that the air it contains is not injurious to the health of passengers, being renewed sufficiently often by the currents which always prevail in it, to pre serve a wholesome atmosphere. The following are the reasons that have induced me to adopt this opinion : I. The examination of numerous specimens of air, pro cured from the tunnel under every variety of circumstan ces, by an assistant, who made observations there for a' week according to the directions I had given him, has shown me that the amount of carbonic acid communicated to the air by the locomotive-engine is considerably less than one per cent.—an amount too trifling to be taken into con sideration, as capable of affecting the health of passengers in the railway-coaches during their passage through the tunnel. H. If the average amount of coke consumed in each trip within the Tunnel be calculated ; and the volume of car bonic acid it produces be compared with the bulk of the air in the Tunnel, we arrive at the same conclusion as by the experiments referred to. 111. But the carbonic acid must be considered as equally diffused throughout the whole of the air in the Tunnel. Froin the circumstances under which it is . produced, it is necessarily at an elevated temperature and mixed with a large quantity of moisture ; and though its temperature may instantly be reduced on coming in contact with the air, still the specific gravity of the great mass of the air in which it is enveloped is less than that of the rest of the air in the Tunnel, and it floats principally above the roofs of the coaches till it escapes. The heat and moisture more than counterbalance any increased density from the carbo nic acid, and numerous researches have shown that very heavy gases do not readily separate from air when they have been intimately mingled with it. IV. The temperature of the air in the Tunnel, during the week that my assistant conducted his examination, &c., did not differ much from that of the external air ; the greatest difference observed, did not exceed six degrees. Its temperature is more uniform than that of the external air. On one occasion, the temperature of the air at the top of the deepest shaft rose, in a few seconds, from 37 deg. to 40 deg., as the engine passed and the vapour ascended from it, and fell as quickly again to 37 deg. as the vapour escaped. V. No impurity was detected in any of the specimens of air I received, except the carbonic acid, which, as already stated, bears a considerably smaller proportion than 1 to 100. I may add, that I have been disposed to take a favour able view of the ventilation of tunnels generally, notwith standing they should be longer than that under considera tion , though local peculiarities may at times require special arrangements. MEMOIRS 0/ A PEERESS.—This publication, which is edited by Lady Bury, cannot fail to excite an unusual degree of interest. Among the numerous personages who os tensibly figure in its pages are Charles Fox, General Fitzpa trick, the Duchess of Devonshire, Lady Melbourne, Lady Cork (then Miss Monckton), Mrs. Fitzherbert, and the Prince of Wales, besides numerous others, under feigned names. STEAM PACKETS AND SAILING PACKETS. — His Majesty's Packet Camden, with the Lisbon Mail, left Lis bon on the sth March, and did not arrive at Falmouth until the 23d day, being eighteen days on her passage. The Man chester steamer sailed from Lisbon on the 19th, and Oporto on the 20th, March, and arrived at Falmouth on the 24th, making the passage in five days from the first, and four 'days from the latter port. The Iberia steamer made her passage out to Lis bon from Falmouth in riinety-six hours, including some hours' detention off Oporto. Sir—l observe in your Paper of the 30th of March last that you have made some observations rt:.s2ecting a petition sent from this town in favour of Church-raiZ's• I beg to inform you that the petitions presented b y Mr. il,2lland to ffh the Commons, and Lord Brouam to the House of i..;.,rds, against the continuance of Church-rates, was signed by uV wards of Six Hundred inhabitants of this town, many of whom are influential members of the Church Establisinnent• You may rely on this statement being correct, and may make any remarks you think necessary on the subject. I am, Sir, Your's, &c. Bromsgrovc, April 2, 1837. Z. The Churchwardens for the parish of Bromsgrove have been hitherto, always appointed on Ea ster Monda y ; on that day this year, however, no appointment was made, in consequence of not any of the inhabitants (excepting the curate and sexton) attending at that time. It is a subject of congratulation to many persons, as by this omission, they aro of opinion no appointment can now take place legally this year, and consequently no Church-rate can either be granted or collected. • , PH SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 3, 1837 SPAIN. MADuID, MARCH 25.—Count Almodovar, Minister at War, is so seriously indisposed that it has been found De.- cessary to appoint his successor. For this purpose General Facundo Infante has been nominated. He holds his office only until the Count's recovery. Senor Gil de la Cuadr,a continues on the sick list, with no immediate prospect of amendment. Senor Lopez also has been taken-ill, and the medical attendants of Senor Calatrava give no hopes of his being in a state to transact public business in less than three or four months. Senor M.:ndizabal, 'having reco vered from a slight attack, alone of the whole cabinet keeps on the even tenour of his way," and flourishes in the midst of sickness and disaster. In the meanwh ile he is - the subject of the daily, vituperations, the bitter and searching sarcasms and accusations of that portion of the daily Press which devotes its servile column to what is termed the Mode! ao, or moderate party in Spain. Never, perhaps, was a public man in any country more unceasingly assailed. From the light rattling fire of the Mundo or Duende (the Ghost), to the heavy artillery of the Espanol, all the missiles of literary warfare are daily brought to bear upon his reputation. He is a Jew ;he is the tallest Ingo in Spain (hence his cognomen of " John and a half ;") tos is a conspirator, seeking only the ruin of his country for hiS own personal gain. The truth is, that he is the finance minister of a bankrupt treasury, and hence, in the impossi bility of satisfying the innumerable claimants upon the State, he becomes the butt of all the hcartburning and dis appointment naturally engendered by such a state of things. The accusation against the present Government of hav ing prevented the intervention of France, now daily repro duced, with the addition of disparaging observations upon the ability of England to serve Spain in her present dis tress, is well calculated to prepare the way for a return of the moderate party to power. Looking at the various in dications given by its organs, there can, indeed, be no doubt that this party dreams of a restoration. The heads of this party have, since August last, been con gregated under the baleful shadow of the Tuileries, and seeing their ill-concealed enmity to England, their at tempts to rouse the national jealousy by harping upon the ascendancy of English influence at pre sent in the councils of Spain, and their slavish lauda tions of Louis Philippe and the protecting power of France, there can be no doubt that that great master mind of trickery is at work in the plots undoubtedly in evidence here for a counter revolution. Louis Philippe will no doubt play the same game with the ambitious Mo deraos gathered about him in Paris that he did with the Constitutionalists in 1830, the full and instructive history of which is disclosed in a work given to the world some few months back by M. Viardot. He will incite and cajole them by liberal promises, in order afterwards to betray their country and themselves to his own uses. But what signi fies this fatal result to the aspirants for place and power ? In the meanwhile dissensions are engendered where all should be union and vigour to meet accumulating ills. The most melancholy picture is drawn of the state of the midland provinces. Valencia, Aragon, La Mancha, and Estrema dura are all suffering from numerous bands of rebels and rob bers, some of mere local origin, but others belonging to the great factions of Cabrera, Forcadell, and Quilez. From all quarters the cry to the Government is for troops, and in a heartrending description of the sufferings of the province, from the provincial deputation of Valencia, the Queen is un equivocally told that between a people and their Sovereign protection is an indispensable condition of allegiance. Some of the Arragonese bands have placed Cuenca in a state of alarm. In consequence of the progress of Cabrera. the Captain-General of Madrid has gone out at the head of about a thousand regular troops. His object is to gather forces in La Mancha, and act for the protection of the ca pital. General Quiroga has been appointed Captain-Ge neral during his absence. A party of rebels lately entered Truxillo, an important town on the high road to Badajos. They were beaten back by a small hand of nationals in a very gallant manner, but the town has addressed the Queen, demanding troops and protection. At Zaragoza there have been some disturbances, arising out of the appearance of bands of factious in several towns in the district. It is said that Cordova was in the town, no his way to Madrid. His arrival here has been expected for the last fortnight. BAYONNE, MARCH 28.—Two pieces of twelve, and two six-inch mortars, with a quantity of shells, shot, small arms , and ammunition arrived at St. * Jean de Luz on Sunday af ternoon, and were yesterday conveyed to the fort of Beho bia. They were accompanied by an officer and twenty seven Spanish artilleiy-men, who, as usual, on entering France, were required to give up their arms, as well as their charge (the cannon, &c.) to a party of the 57th regiment of the line, who escorted them to Behobia. It is. not to be, supposed that this indicates any immediate move in this direction. The guns are merely sent here to be ready when occasion demands ; but though a move in this direction in a few weeks may be looked for, it will not take place until the plan of operations is far more matured than at present. The Carlists have received large supplies of money through this place within the last few days. I know not exactly the quarter from whence it comes ; but I am po sitive of the fact. The consequence is, that the contraband trade is now commencing with wonderful activity. Bayonno is crowded with the Basque peasantry of the mountains, all in search of employment at their favourite and well un derstood trade. It will now be seen how far the increased Custom-house force will do its duty. I much fear the re sult will be unsatisfactory, as well from the well known susceptibility" of the higher functionaries, as from the "identity of interest" feeling of the more subordinate . Wine and brandy, and cloth for uniforms, in great quail' Pities, have been within the last three days passed through Behobia. Cloth, unless made into regimental coats, is Pot prohibited under the late ordonnance. The distinction , however, to be drawn between passing uniforms across th e frontier, and allowing all the materials (including even the tailors) to enter as " raw material" on the other side of the frontier to be made into uniforms, I must leave the French Government to decide. Generals Le Merchant and Godfrey, late of the Legion , have passed through here on their way to England. Letters of the 27th have just been received from Pour plona. The entire of Saarsfield's division was there or i° the immediate neighbourhood, but a movement was ex pected almost hourly, again in the direction of the Basta°. Zarategui, tho Ugh near, did not show himself. His los s on the days of the 20th, 21st, and 22d was considerab le. The 10th of Navarre had half its number cut off, and the . sth lost its standard. The Carlists, on the 22d, had fro ten to thirteen battalions in the field, and the retreat In thelace of them was beautifully managed. General Sord field continued very ill, and Iribarren of course in comma° Don Carlos was at Estella. The following letter has been addressed to General Eva ns by Count Harispe : " Head-quarters, Bayonne, March 21, 183 7 . ""GENERAL,—I heard of the unfortunate result of the attack on Hernani, with a feeling of the liveliest regret-1 regret which my deep sympathy with the cause you de fen . , and mare particularly with your own position, renders 3" difficult for me to convey to you in words. have used my best exertions to set the pu blic wind the right" upon an event, unfortunate no doubt, but which 0a hateful spirit of party and interested passions have turn to their own uses by exaggerations and calumny. ntl" " You will accept, General, the expression of the sY thy of an old soldier, who, in the course of a long eare l - i y has witnessed many a military vicissitude. A che ek " be quickly repaired, and I know that you arc w anting 0 . n .. ther in resolution nor that invaluable courage w hich ia l ier fortune is unable to repress. Your own honour as S° der has not suffered ; this justice every one is obliged to rfn_ n a you. The honour of the British name is untarnisheth.nnes the noble conduct of the battalion of the British ga ri or sufficiently proves what may be expected from trooP ouje d ganised, long subject to strict discipline, and see rst to obey the voice of their leaders. our 4, I h o p e , th en , th a t i n a f ew d ays y o u will resu m : operations. Above all, I hope you will not be left " I sha ll ported by those appointed to co-operate with you- With hail with satisfaction the success that awaits you. feelings of the warmest consideration, I am, Sic. , E•" ( Siged) COUNT HARI beir T p h r e es l u o m n p o tiv ta e lk t e o d t o h f e i t n h a ro rr n i e acc o e f oFfratnhcee,Duke of ° rle t il it S t P 0 0 to ha y " , p pears Las 0 length been finally arranged. The Journal des De nin g a Saturday semi-officially announces that on Friday tnerintelli courier from Berlin reached the Foreign-office withytike gence of the conclusion of the marriage bet wen the , geolt° f Orleans and the Princess Helena Louisa Elizabeth oi lenburgh Schwerin.