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rust therefore that some of our Ministerial contempo raries will henceforth make less racket about the growing disproportion between Papists and Protestants, as shown by each successive census. The phenomenon may be real, but the cause assumed for it is glaringly false. The difference is numerical only on the side of the Papists. Taken as a body, their own gen tlemen and men of education have been as much out stripped by the prolific malady of the lower order, as the sum total of Protestants has been. There may be positively more Roman Catholic gentlemen now than there were thirty years ago, just as there are positively a greater n um b er o f Protestants in Ire land than at the same period, but the ratio of the la bouring and half-fed poor to their own gentry has been not less fearfully accelerated than in relation to the Protestant community. Unreflecting quadrupeds will propagate with more unchecked rapidity than rational creatures who look to consequences and to the fate they bring upon others. Now, it is such a multitude as we have been describing, impelled, directed, despo tically ruled by their priests, that are to be let in like a deluge upon the municipalities of Ireland, and to swamp the English Protestants in every corner of the country. We have done our part—a thankless part. We have warned our Protestant countrymen of their danger. We have respectfully, perhaps vainly, sup plicated the attention of a British Parliament to this the last stake for the sovereignty of Ireland, which the motley faction, now domineering over both islands, has left in the power of King, Lords, and Commons to play. What the consequence of such a measure may be, if carried into a law, it is not pleasant to pro phesy. How the Protestants of Ireland may deem themselves justified in acting, is more a frightful than a difficult question. To the last experiment of a Popish Government for their country, the resistance which they exhibited was neither unsuccessful nor passive.—Times. The two great measures of the Melbourne-O'Co nell Administration--the Irish Church and Municipal Reform Bills—having received the sanction of the House of Commons, both as to the good and evil which they contain, the country awaits with anxiety the decision of the House of Lords. For our own part, though zealously advocating for years past the reform of the Church Establishment and of Corpora tions, we have felt it an imperative duty to oppose those parts of both Bills which invade the rights of property, and give the colour of law to odious doc trines of confiscation and robbery. Reform, in its true sense, commits no wrong, and works no injustice ; can that be said of the Bill which goes to strip the freemen of England of the rights that the Reform Act had so lately guaranteed, and to despoil them of pro perty to which they have as just and indefeasible a right as the Duke of Bedford, or the Marquis of Lansdowne, or any other Whig or Tory Nobleman to his patrimonial estates ? Can that be said of the Bill which takes from the Protestant Church of Ireland the revenues belonging to two-fifths of its parishes, to apply it to other than ecclesiastical purposes, while a large proportion of the working clergy of that establishment are destitute of the means of a decent subsistence ? Surely these two Bills, by adopting the principle of confiscation, overstep the limits between improvement and destruction—between reform and re volution. Notwithstanding that we have more than once been honoured with some share of that scurrilous attention which the tolerant Mr. O'Connell so liberally bestows upon all who will not be the tools or slaves of the insolent demagogue, yet we confess there is a qua lity of his which excites our admiration : it is the intense and untiring zeal with which he promotes the interests of the Church to which he belongs, and the implacable hostility that he manifests towards the Protestant Esta blishment, and towards every thing and every person con nected with its existence. If similar determination and perseverance characterized those who are, or ought to be, the champions ofthe Protestant cause, and the opponents of the encroaching ambition of the Papal system, the Ministerial tools of Mr. O'Connell would never have dared to propose to Parliament such a measure of rapine and spoliation, touching the Protestant Establishment in Ireland, as that which the degenerate descendant of the martyred Lord Russell—the victim of papal treachery—brought into the House of Commons. In zeal for the interests of his Church—in the indefatiga ble activity which is calculated to render that zeal ef fective, Protestant legislators may well take a lesson of conduct from Mr. O'Connell. His 'political morality, we trust, Protestants will always hold in abhorrence ; but his political energy and tenacity of purpose are qualities for which lie deserves to be admired—quali ties that, if they make a bad cause powerful, ought to make a good one irresistible. But though the growing ascendancy of the Church of Rome in these realms, at the present day, owes much to the personal vigour with which the pence-collecting demagogue fights its battles, it is far more indebted to weakness, pusil lanimity, or treachery of the Protestant Statesmen of England. We will not now revert to the ca lamitous mistakes of Statesmen who have be come wise too late, who find that Popery is not to be conciliated by concession—that every surrender on the part of Protestants but increases the arrogance of its demands--that, amid all the changes which civi lisation has wrought in the systems and sentiments of Europe, its intolerant spirit remains unchanged—and that it still cherishes, as Dens's book proves, the pecu liar morality that makes it a duty of faith to be faith less to engagements with Protestants, and the first of Christian virtues to sting, the hand of a heretical bene factor. We say we will not revert to the calamitous mistakes into which some of our Statesmen have fallen from acting upon the erroneous supposition that the Papal system, .either in its theological or political as pect, is changed or changeable. ° But we hope those mistakes will be the last; and that the return which Peel and Wellington have received from O'Connell and his followers for opening to them the doors of Parliament, will impress upon the minds of the Pro testants of England this great truth, that although their religion forbids them to persecute Popery, they cannot cherish it but to their own destruction.—Morn inn. Herald. In the House of Lords, last night, the Duke of Newcastle puzzled Lord Brougham exceedingly upon the subject of the Municipal Corporations Bill, on the discussion of which their Lordships enter this day. The honest and straight-forward Duke of Newcastle does not understand why the House of Lords should proceed to legislate upon the report of a Commission of Inquiry, the legality of which is doubted, a Com mission which, if it be not legal, involved and esta blished the worst principles of the most arbitrary Go vernment. The shuffling Ex-Chancellor could not but feel the force of this observation of the Noble Duke, and insisted, accordingly, that the Commis sion of Inquiry was perfectly legal, although he could not but confess, that nobody was bound to make any reply to, or to take any notice whatever of its in quiries. This shift is equally discreditable to the legal knowledge and the manly integrity of the Ex-Chancellor ; for a Commission of Inquiry which is issued by the King of England, and to the inquiries of which none of the subjects of the King of England are bound to pay any attention what ever, cannot, it is obvious, be a legal Commission of Inquiry. The cowardice of the Corporations of Eng land has, we confess with shame and regret, supplied Lord Brougham with the pretext upon which he now rests. Why was there no Mayor or Alderman in all England who had spirit and sense enough to lodge for a night or two in the borough or city gaol the intru sive Commissioners, who presumed, without legal war rant, to set up within his jurisdiction a sham Court of judicial inquiry ? This step we repeatedly advised, while the mountebank Commissioners were making their insolent progress through England, and we ven ture now to say that the Mayor who had done this excellent thing would have triumphed in Westminster Hall. Westminster Hall is yet good, and pure, and ConstitAtianal, and English,—although there have - been some appointments to the Bench of which we have not been. able entirely to app rove . Wh y i s not Westminater-pau even yet appealed to, as it ought to be, by high-spirited Englishm en , con scious of right ?' We hear of petitions from cor porations who feel that the Commissioners of Corpo ration inquiry have traduced and libelled them, praying that they may be heard by their Counsel at the bar of the House of Lords. We venture to tell the Corpora tions who think they have been libelled in the report of 1 the Commissioners that their Counsel would command far more of the respect and attention of the people of England in their regular and proper place at the bar of the Court of King's Bench. We venture to tell them that their Counsel, supporting an indictment or informa tion for libel, would be much better heard at the har of the Court of King's Bench than at that of the House of Lords, notwithstanding our unbounded respect for the latter, and notwithstanding all that we know and feel respecting the actual constitution of the former. We venture to tell the Corporations of England that, according to the law of England as it stands at this moment, the Report of the Corporation Commissioners is not a privileged publication. We venture to tell them, that for any part of it which is really libellous its authors may be prosecuted for libel, and the Court of King's Bench will so far at least do its duty as to entertain the plea. What, then, have the Counsel of the libelled corporations to do at the bar of the House of Lords, unless it be to entreat their Lordships not to legislate in the absence of such information as regu lar judicial proceedings, already determined on, will speedily bring before them ? It is, we are persuaded, by this spirited and constitutional course, which we earnestly recommend to the Corporations of England, and only by this, that the small quibbles of Lord Brougham upon the legality of the Corporation Com mission can be reduced to their proper value.-- Morning Post. The Corporation Bill will, we understand, be ad mitted to a second reading in the Lords, with some talk, but without opposition. Some amendments will, however, be proposed in Committee, by the Duke of Wellington and others, which, even if carried, will not vitally affect the great principles of the Bill. So far, therefore, this measure, so detergent of municipal pol lutions, may be looked upon as secured to the people. Would that we could say the same of the Irish Church Bill ! But of the fate of the latter we can entertain no hope from the bigotries, prejudices, and insatiable thirst of patronage with which our hereditary sages are so thoroughly saturated. What course, then, are Ministers to pursue if this Bill, so essential to the tran quillity of Ireland, be crippled in its healthy action by being returned in a maimed or mutilated state ? Are we to have a collision between the two Houses ? Will his Majesty take means of infusing into the Lords a spirit less hostile to the national interests, --less obnoxious to the popular will ? These are questions which deeply involve the safety and tran quillity of the empire. Honour and justice, too, sternly forbid any compromise, on the part of the Ministers, of the principle which carried them into office, or any supposition that they will make any concession which would destroy their political existence, or—a result which is equivalent—lose them the confidence of the people. Under such contingencies they will have no alternative but to resign to his Majesty the trust which he graciously reposed in them. Will the Dukes of Wel lington or Newcastle, or Sir Robert Peel accept office, and again drive the people to the verge of revolution ? Dare they do it ? Ireland already feels the " sickness of the heart from hope deferred ;" she looks to the present Church Bill as a balm for her wounds—a remedy for a portion of her manifold wrongs, and the omen of future justice. Let those who oppose it gravely reflect on the consequences of its rejection. There are seven millions of Roman Catholics in Ire land. A Coercion Bill may not again be sufficient to ' restrain them—it was a dangerous experiment with a Reform Ministry ; but the attempt of a similar mea sure by an Anti-reform Ministry would at once unfurl the banners of a civil war. We say to the Lords, in the words of a Rev. Gentleman who lately most elo quently addressed a public meeting in Leicester, " Look to yourselves in time. We have petitioned them (the Lords)," said he, " respectfully ; if that fail, we must knock louder at their door ; if they are still obstinate, we must remind them of times past, when the Bishops were confined to their dio ceses, and the door of the House of Lords was locked, and the people legislated for themselves, perhaps as wisely and as well." But, with the Rev. Gentleman we forbear further dissertation on this painful subject—we will not anticipate evils, though we must fear them —we will continue to cherish the hope, even against hope, that the Peers, even if they dislike the Irish Church Bill, will see the policy—the actual mercy—of passing it—in compassion, if from no other cause, for the Protestant Clergy of Ireland, who, if it were not passed, would be reduced to a state of beggary and starvation—exposed to the midnight at tacks of a population infuriated by distress, and falsely imagining that that distress is attributable to them, and to them only. Will the Lords expose the pastors of their Church to these dangers ? Will they risk the chance of a civil commotion for the gratification of a mere party purpose ? Are they aware that it is not the intention of the present Government to call for a renewal of the Coercion Act of last Session—that no Govern ment, Tory, Whig, or Radical, could carry such a Bill through the House of Commons—and, finally, that the effect of the absence, on the one hand, of the con trouling power of the Coercion Act, and of the non passing of the Irish Church Bill on the other, would be to leave Ireland without a Government, and to ex pose the property of those who have a direct interest in its tranquillity, to the most imminent hazards ? We beg the Lords, therefore, to ponder these things se riously before they determine either upon mutilating the Corporation Bill, or rejecting that which is in tended for the more effectual pacification of Ireland, through an improvement of the state of her Esta blished Church. We are neither anarchists or alarm ists—republicans or levellers—but verily there is more than one dark spot on the horizon betiding a storm of no ordinary magnitude ; and as friends to the Peers we honestly bid them take heed of them in time—for, to use the language of the scriptures, " the day is already far spent, and the night cometh, in which no one can work."—Morning Advertiser. SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, JULY 27.—Wind E. N. E.—Arrived from the river and sailed, the William and Henry Angus, Whittle, for Hon duras; and City of Londonderry, (S.) —, for Dublin. Arrived and sailed for the river, the Thames (S.), Dawson, for Dublin. Arrived and sailed, the David Laurie, --, from Poole to Leith. 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Further violence was prevented by the landlord taking flight, and the arrival of police-officers, who apprehended the prisoner. He was required to find sureties to keep the peace for three months, and in default of bail he was committed.— Wheeler's 11:ranches ter Chronicle. NEW WORK BY THE AUTHOR OF " PETER SIMPLE."—" The Pasha of many Tales" promises to become one of the most popular of Captain M . arryat's amu s i ng nove l s . He has displ a y e d i n fi n it e a r t i n making impossibilities so re dundant with the richest humour ; and while the redoubtable Pasha is laughed at to his very beard, few readers find them selves unscathed by some of the author's sly strokes of satire. For mere amusement these tales cannot be surpassed, and those who are mad for a moral will only have the trouble to gather as much as they please, for morals hang about these stories as thick as clusters of grapes in Autumn. THE SUN, LONDON, TUVSDAY, JULY 28, 1835. 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VALPY, M.A., Red Lion Court, Fleet street, London. HANIBURG, JULY 21, 1835. NOTICE is hereby given, that the Tickets of the 66th HAMBURG GREAT LOTTERY, guaranteed by the Hamburg State, at Si. a Ticket, that will be drawn on the 12th of next month (August), ARE NEARLY ALL CLEARED OFF ; And that the undersigned Contractors decline, as usual, to take any English orders for any thing less than a whole Ticket, the Corre spondence for single shares being too troublesome, and not worth the portages. . . _ _ To persons remitting 101. without delay, 2/. will be returned on executing the order by return of Post, and without much increas ing the postage. HEINE BROTHERS. Direct, Heine Brothers, in Hamburg. P.S.—ln the last (65th) Lottery, the Capital Prizes came up to the following Tickets:— Bancomarks. No. 2,328 sold in Hamburg 3,277 sold to Limerick ... 50,000 5,427 sold to Riga 1,620 sold in Hamburg for account of a London house 3,451 sold to Liverpool The Prizes of the Hamburg Great Lottery, are since the last Lottery payable without any deduction whatever, and at the present Exchange Bancomarcs 55 are equal to 41. The publication oi THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 10 minutes past 3 o'clock. „ -r, C Ly Zhe snn+ LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 28, 1835. The Irish Church Reform Bill made good progress in the Committee last night, the first forty-nine clauses having been got through, when the House adjourned. Lord MORPETH and the ATTORNEY-GENERAL for Ireland mentioned a few alterations in some of the details which they meant to propose at a future time, and certain amendments were suggested by my Lord STANLEY, but there was no division on any one of the clauses. Sir IL PEEL having shot his bolt, seems to think he has done his duty. The Right Hon. Baronet took no part in the discussion, relinquishing to Mr. GouL ßUßN—his brother journeyman, according to the happy designation of the Times—the task of announ cing the cessation of all Tory Opposition to the Bill in the Committee. This is one happy result of their defeat on the 20th. The Tories are like spaniels, very impudent and unruly until they are well beaten. Thrash them soundly, and they become submissive and obedient. The prevalence of distress in Ireland is a subject of such every-day occurrence, that the public mind in this country appears to have grown callous to the sufferings of the miserable inhabitants of that long mis-governed portion of the British empire. The starvation of the Irish peasantry has come to be re garded as a matter of course—an incurable malady, for which the utmost that can be done is to provide a mo mentary alleviation of the more excruciating torments. Did the speech of Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD in the House of Commons last night, on moving an Address to the Crown relative to the distressed state of the Mayo peasantry, disclose an equal amount of misery in any of our dependencies in the East or West Indies, all England would be agitated by the bare recital of such horrors. But as the Hon. Gentle man confined himself to a statement of the starvation in Ireland, the only good effect produced by his speech was that the Right Hon. Secretary for Ireland admitted the existence of the distress complained of, and offered, on the part of the Government, not to oppose the appro priation of any sum towards its alleviation which Par- liament might feel disposed to grant. This apathy, on the part of the British Parliament and people, is solely to be attributed to the gross misrepresentations of the landed aristocracy of Ireland. These misre presentations have preceded every cry for relief, till at last the people of England regard the starving poor of Ireland as th e v i ct i ms o f vo l untary idleness, and in curable dissipation. The speech of Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD has confirmed us in the belief that no effectual relief can be extended to Ireland, unless the boon be ac companied with a wholesome system of poor laws. Temporary aid will only aggravate the evil at a subsequent period. It is putting new wine into old bottles—new patches upon a worn-out gar ment. Every grant made by the British Parliament for the alleviation of poverty in Ireland is so much added to the rental of the Irish absentee landlords, so long as that country is without any l ega l prov i s i on for the destitute poor. We shall return to this subject to-morrow, or the day following. We spoke yesterday, in terms such as it appeared to us to deserve, of Mr. HoGG's Protest against the Municipal Corporation Report ; observing, inter alia, that it was characterized by grammatical solecisms, ab surd premises, and still more absurd conclusions_ that, in fact, from first to last, it was a mere farrago of elaborate dulness and unconscious inconsistency. A subsequent attentive perusal has convinced us that we were correct in our estimate of this curious produc tion ; whose author, nothing daunted by any appre hensions of ridicule, "goes the whole Hog " in point of absurdity. The main object of his Protest is, of course, to expose, what he calls, the errors of the Com missioners' Report ; but in attempting this, he has at tempted a task above his capacity ; and is consequently compelled to have perpetual recourse to such common place clap-traps, as the " good old times," the " wis dom of our ancestors," the " perils of innovation," &c. —clap-traps which stand him in the stead of reason ing, and by which he evidently calculates on making an impression on the House of Lords. As for im pugning the truth or justice of the Commissioners' Report, this he is unable to do, though he strives hard to do so, in any one single instance. Never theless, deficient as his Protest is, in all that should constitute such a production, he apologizes for it on the score that it is too " often argumentative"—an apology perfectly superfluous, inasmuch as no offence in the way of argument has been given by it. But this is not the only specimen we meet with of Mr. HoGG's bashfulness. Towards the close of his Protest, he has actually the effrontery to lament that he is so much wiser than all his brother Commissioners —a regret, which, we intreat him to lay aside, for we can comfort him by the assurance that, like his claim to be argumentative, it is wholly without foun dation. But enough of prefatory matter ; let us now pro ceed to give a few of " the Beauties of HoGG," in the shape of extracts, &c. Speaking of elec tioneering, he says, " a careful examination bids me ' doubt whether any considerable bodies of men have really been much deteriorated in any case by election eering, so as to be wholly corrupt." Indeed I What, then were the Grampound—what the East Retford— what the Warwick—what, more recently, the Ipswich electors ? If these men were not " deteriorated " were not " corrupt," where—in what form, does cor ruption exist ? Boroughs are not usually disfranchised, as was the case with the two first, in consequence of their purity ; nor are agents lodged in jail because they are proved to be wholly without influence over the votes of Ipswich electors. In alluding to the old Municipal Charters, Mr. HOGG insists that it is hazardous even to spread a report that they are going to be amended, or annulled, " the appearance of jus tice being no inconsiderable part of justice," by which he would imply, we presume, that the wig and gown of the Judge form no " inconsiderable part" of his judicial wisdom and integrity. The legal wig and gown have, unquestionably, great virtue, as in the case of Mr. HoGG himself, for they have enabled him to gain credit with the House of Lords, for the possession of legal know ledge, which he might still, by virtue of these " appear ances of justice," have been supposed to possess, had he not, in evil hour, dissipated the delusion by the publication of his present Protest. Disguised in the lion's skin, he might still have been mistaken for the lion, could he but have checked his disastrous pro pensity to braying. To a certain extent, therefore, he is right in his appreciation of the virtue of the wig and gown ; but, unquestionably, they have no such vast judicial influence as he would attribute to them. Mr. HoGG professes to entertain a holy horror of all Constitutions founded on reason. They are no thing in his eyes, unless they are propped up and fenced round by the prejudices of the " good, old times." The people, he tells us, are of the same way of thinking, who " prefer a title derived from King ALFRED, to one originating in a statute of the nine teenth century." We suppose then that it was its ex treme antiquity that delighted them so much in the Reform Bill ; Inv! induced them so readily to give twenty millions to put down the slave trade - t-- We now come to one of the choicest specimens of the " Beauties of HOGG?' He is speaking of elec tioneering influence. Hear the Oracle on this point ! " Custom has been used more effectually to influence votes than employment. The artisan may be dis charged, and so put to some inconvenience, but the shop-keeper may be ruined ; the one is free, the other fixed to the curb-stone in front of his shop." Now it happens to us to have seen tradesmen in most of the towns in England, but we cannot take it on our con science to assert, that we ever yet saw one " fixed to the curb-stone in front of his shop." We once saw one " fixed," much against his inclination, in the Stocks, but never to " the curb-stone." As Mr. HOGG, however, is remarkable throughout his Protest for the strange things he hears and sees, and consequently reports as Gospel truth, it is by no means impossible that he may have seen a shopkeeper in this perplexing predicament, and thought it his duty, as a Commissioner, to report the pheno menon to Government. We hope, when he next makes a similar discovery, he will communicate the good news to us, that we may hasten to feast our eyes on the startling spectacle. A shopkeeper " fixed to the curb-stone in front of his shop," especially if it be a rainy day, and he has no umbrella, must be a sight as puzzling to the philosopher, as it must be painful to the philanthropist. In another part of his Protest, while prattling about the way in which Corporation Property has been too often disposed of, Mr. HOGG takes the opportunity of observing, with all the dignified gravity of one whose legal qualifications (" the appearance of justice being no inconsiderable part of justice") are represented and vouched for by his wig and gown, that " tolls, town-dues, and other sources of revenue, have too often, by reason of the mode in which the right to such franchises is determined, been converted into a bottomless gulf of dissipation." It is odd, that not withstanding our acquaintance with most public grievances, we never yet heard of that most surprizing one, the transformation of a " toll," or " town-due," into a " gulph." We will confess that we once saw Harlequin convert a toll-bar into a stage coach; but to convert a " toll" into a " gulph," is an achievement that surpasses even his dexterity. None but a HOGG could have accomplished such a miracle. Were we to point out but one half the specimens of tautology, broken metaphor, showy antithesis, and in accurate reasoning that abound in every page of this extraordinary Protest, our remarks would " stretch to the crack o' doom ;" we must, therefore, hurry to a close, with the single observation that in the last passage but one, the cause of all Mr. HoGG's hostility to the Commissioners' Report is laid bare in the most undisguised manner. He was, it seems, originally, to have been Secretary to the Com mission ; but from some cause or other, which he very vaguely hints at, he was deprived of this situation, and appointed Commissioner instead ! Hence the present hostile Protest, which, we strongly suspect, is not so much the result of conscientious conviction, as of disappointed ambition. The whole of the Paris Papers of Sunday have been received. The following telegraphic despatch, which appears in the Moniteur, was received by the French Government on Saturday evening Don Carlos was at Estella on the 21st. He has ap pointed Ituralde to be Commander-in-Chief of Navarre, in lieu of Eraso, who has resigned, owing to the state of his health. On the 20th, Cordova left Pampeluna with the army for Puente la Reyna. The Carlist forces are concentrated in the vicinity of Los Arcos." The corps of Volunteers about to be raised in Paris for the service of the Queen of SPAIN are to be com• posed entirely of Frenchmen. No foreigner will be permitted to join these bodies. The Temps states that among the persons who have engaged in the corps of volunteers for the QUEEN, the Baron VILLENEUVE i s mentioned, who will command a battalion. Al most all the officers wear the insignia of dif ferent Orders, and have seen much service. Among them are to be found the names of several who are honorably mentioned in the Order of the Day of the War in Algarve, and a great many who received from Don PEDRO the. Order of the Tower and the Sword. It seems that the Spanish , Government wishes to employ principally French officers, and will not have to accept the services of several Italian and Polish refugees. Nevertheless, it appears that several persons, not being included in this organization, will go at their own expense with the corps of Baron SUARCE. The companies are now complete, and there is reason to be astonished that the orders to march are not given. The officers will not put on their uniforms till they reach the frontier, and will conduct their detachments dressed as citizens. Lisbon papers to the 20th inst. have been received this morning. They announce a change of Ministry. This is rather sudden ; but what renders the affair still more curious, if not important, is that the dissolution of the late Cabinet is attributed to the representation of Lord HOWARD DE WALDEN, his Britannic MA JESTY'S Ambassador at the Court of Lisbon. The announcement of the dissolution of the Ministry, and the manner in which it was effected, are thus given in the Tribune du Peuple of the 11th instant : " The ' impossible' Ministry has fallen; we are only asto nished at its having existed so long. This desirable change is thus accounted for:—The English Ambassador, Lord Howard de Walden, not having attended on the Bth to pay his respects, an interview took place on the 9th with certain personages, who demanded of him the motives for his conduct. He replied frankly that the Ministry did not offer guarantees of sufficient stability to act in concert with the English Cabinet in a ques tion so delicate as the execution of the treaty of the quadruple alliance by the four contracting Powers, having for its object the termination of the cival war in Spain and the consolidation of the representative system in Portugal. The Ambassador added that it was now more necessary than ever that a perfect understanding should subsist between the two Cabinets of Madrid and Lisbon, and that M. Mendizabal having accepted office in the Spanish Ministry, anything like good understanding between him and M. Campos, his political adversary, was impossible. Things having once arrived at this point, the result was inevitable." The circumstantial form in which this intelligence is communicated would incline us to regard it as correct, were we not persuaded that the British Government would not sanction any tampering with the appoint ment of a Foreign Cabinet. We are quite confident that Lord PALMERSTON has never given any instructions to the representative of this Government at Lisbon, which would have the effect of restraining the Sovereign of Portugal in the free exercise of any part of the Royal prerogative. The following has been forwarded to us as a correct list of the New Cabinet : Marquis SALDANHA, Minister of War and Presi dent of the Council. Senhor AUGUSTIN JOSE FREIRE, Minister of the Interior. Senhor JOSE DA SILVA CARVALHO, Minister of Finance. Senhor JUAN DE SoUSA PINTO MAGALHAES, Minister of Justice. Marquis LouLE, Minister of Marine. Duke of PALMELLA, Minister of Foreign Affairs. The papers assure us, that the return of CARVALIIO to the Finance department has produced the most salu tary effect on the public mind in Portugal. The con fidence of the Capitalists is completely restored, and offers of sums of money to any amount are daily made to the new Government. The QUEEN was in good health, and tranquillity prevailed throughout the country. In the German Papers received this day we find a decree promulgated by the Grand Duke of BA DEN, to the effect that having reason to believe that the poli tical union and machinations of foreign fugitives and artisans will no longer be tolerated in Switzerland, he has revoked the previous ordinance by which journey men artisans were prohibited from going to Switzerland from the Grand Duchy. VIENNA, JULY 17.-5 per Cents., 1021 ; 4 per Cents., 97i; Bank• Shares, I,33o.—Allgemeine Zeitung, July 22. The following article appears in the Chronicle of this morning. We cannot vouch for its authenticity : " The people of this country will learn with no slight feeling of indignation, that, on the 19th instant, three of the marines, British subjects, serving on board the steamer under the com mand of 1 - Tnrr7, havhig bet:n decoyed out of Bil boa, to an ambuscade, where some Carlists were watung for them, have been shot by those banditti under the authority of the decree recently issued at Durango by Don Carlos. These men, named Smith, Dowling, and Delauder, when so decoyed, had no arms, their side-arms alone excepted. Smith offered resistance ; he was shot first, and then bayoneted in the most savage manner. His body was stripped, and allowed to re main in that state or, the road. It was brought into Bilboa on the following morning and interred. The other two men were taken to San Miguel, allowed a short time to prepare for death, and then shot dead on the spot. " It is supposed that this deed of ferocity was perpetrated by way of revenge, for the part which these men and the whole of Commodore Henry's brave companions had tal4..‘n in defend ing Bilboa from the late attack of the Carlists. It assumes a peculiar degree of wickedness, when we consider all the trouble which Commodore Henry took upon himself upon a recent occasion, when ho succeeded in saving the lives of twenty seven Carlist officers, whom he had captured on the coast of Spain. " As a violation of the Eliot Convention there can be no doubt that this flagrant act must be noticed by his Majesty's Government. Don Carlos is, by this time, aware that he will be held personally responsible for any departure from the terms of that Convention, with reference to British subjects. In what manner, and to what extent that responsibility will be exacted, we are not at this moment prepared to say." A Correspondent, passing through the West of England, states, that the Liberal party have been on the alert respecting the Registration. He writes from Frome, Somerset, where there was a Registration So ' ciety formed on the evening of the last election. Th e Society has been in constant action since that time, and the result has been that of placing about 100 good claims for the Liberals on the County list, and up wards of that number added to the Borough list, and that the future independence of the Borough will be achieved. It is expected that Mr. T. SHEPPARD, in the event of an election, will be relieved from any future trouble in attending the House of Commons, as the representative of his family, and to misrepresent the town. W. BRIDGES, ESQ., the late candidate, is still the favourite with the liberal party, and, no doubt will be returned at the next election. At Warminster, the reformers have been very active in placing claims on the Registration List for the county, and also at Westbury, where there is a likelihood that Sir R. LOPEZ will .not be successful again. Trowbridge and Brad ford have not been asleep, as will be seen should the Tories attempt to oppose UETHUEN and LONG. At Malmsbury upwards of 200 county votes have been added in the reform interest. ? D e A S Y T A , c O e n N t E O'CLOCK. India Stock Ditto Bonds 8 10 inn, South Sca Stock Old Annuities New Ditto 3 per Cent. Annuities. 1151— Exch. Bills, £1,000.27 29 26 98 pm, Ditto 500. 27 29 26 28 pm. Ditto Small Ditto Commercial 2B pm. Ditto Advertised — pm. Bank Stock for Account India Stock for Account Consols for Account ......... 90 1 ,4 90 IA THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. We have very few arrivals this morning :—one French mail, and a Malta Mail, by the African. No ship letters. The Lisbon Mail has not yet arrived, although an express has been received from the above capital by the William Fawcett, which sailed on the 19th inst., bringing an account of a change in the Ministry. M. Carvalho has again been reinstated Minister of Finance, and his first act has been to commence burning the paper money in the Bank. THE FUNDS. The loan-takers, monied interest in the City, and Stock Exchange speculators, are all on the qui vine, anxiously waiting for to-morrow to proceed to the Treasury, to be in formed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the required sum for the West India Loan. It is the general opinion, as money is so plentiful amongst the City capitalists, that there will be a great competition, particularly if the whole of the twenty millions is not wanted at present. The prevailing idea is that the great City capitalist will bid a high price for it, knowing how to manage this kind of speculation equal to any financier:in Europe, and by which means the public will save several thousand pounds. Consols, which left off yesterday at 90 to for the Account, opened at the same price this morning. Exchequer Bills, 27 29; India Bonds, 8 10 ; Bank Stock, 214 15i; India Stock, 255 6. __ The Foreign Market continues inactive, with little or no-, thing doing. Portuguese Stock has rather improved, owing to the change in the Ministry at Lisbon. Left off 90/, dune at 902 91 ; Spanish left off 49+ -1, and opened at the same price ; Spanish Scrip, 104 94 ; Colombian, 361 ; Mexican 361 ; Dutch 2/ per Cents., 542 1 1; 5 per Cents., 1011 I. HALF-PAST ONE. Nothing has transpired as yet respecting the amount re quired for the West India Loan. Since the early part of the morning, Consols have improved from 90 to to 904 for Money, at present 904 for the. Ac count. This improvement is attributed to the great scarcity of Stock in tke Market. Exchequer Bills, 26 28 ; India Bonds, 8 10 prem. ; Bank Stock, 2152. The foreign market has also been more lively than in the morning. Spanish has reached 50; Spanish Scrip, 10 91 discount ; Portuguese has been done at 92 at present— not so good, 914- ; Colombian, 361 ; Mexican, 361 ; Dutch 2/ per cenrs, 544 No further arrivals. THREE O'CLOCK Conscls for Account, 90 PARLIAMENTARY SUMMARY. keir. n the Loans' last night the Report on the Certiorari Bil l , broupht up, and the third reading fixed for the .5 th of Atiust. Petitions for and against the Municipal Coi:pore n tion Bills were presented : the legality of the Com missio was called in question by the Duke of NEWCASTLE, who i 3" sister that it was an infringement of the Royal prerogative , LordßaotionANi exposed the fallacy put forth by the Noble Duke and showed the utter groundlessness of his assertions. The s.cond reading of the Irish Roman Catholic Marriages: Bill Ws postponed. Some questions respecting the alleged existence of a Jesuit College at Loughborough were asked by the Duke of NEWCASTLE, who appeared to be sole de positary of the matter, for no Noble Lord could afford te his Grace an y intelligence whatever respecting the subjeC C of his alarm. In the COMMONS' a petition was presented (but afterwaras withdrawn owing to an informality) from some of the 1 1 servants of the East India Company, who complai ns that compensation had been arbitrarily and unjustly vv l 9: held from them. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL repeated determination to press forward the Ecclesiastical Courts Bill. Mr. ITEATHCOTE and Mr. DUNCOMBE wished IC to be deferred till next session. On the Order of the day being moved for going into Committee on the Irish Church Bi l !' Mr. S. CRAWFORD moved as an amendment, an address to 114 Majesty, praying him to take into consideration the distress is Mayo, which, after a distinct re-assurance from Lord Jo n g RUSSELL, RUSSELL, that the Government had already afforded, 85 would continue to afford relief, was withdrawn. Lord RUSSELL, in reply to Major BEAUCLERK, said that a measu re based on the Report to be made by the Commissioners noW , Ireland, respecting the introduction of Poor Laws for t i l e country, was contemplated. Mr. GOULBURN informed trill House that he, as the organ of his party, gave up, for hinss e and friends, all further attempts to oppose the Irish Ch urch Bill. Lord STANLEY, too, gave in his involuntary submissi9. ll ; Sir J. GRAHAM asked if it was intended to proceed with t,'„ Bill from day to day, and was answered in the affirmative. the House resolving itself into Committee on the Irish Chur °b Bill, Lord MolipETn announced an alteration, namely---3ut, the Land-tax Commissioners should pay over the surplus .'" the Consolidated Fund, and that from and after April, 1 83 cii the sum of 50,0001. should be payable from the Consolids. g te Fund, to be applied to the education of all classes of his in a ; jesty's subjects in Ikland. The discussion on the clans' (48 of' which were disposed of) occupied the House the re ' mainder of the sitting. PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. PUBLIC PETITIONS. TWENTY-SEVENTH REPORT. 6TH AND 7TH JULY, 1835. BALLOT—Twenty-five petitions; 10,691 signatures. , 8 9 CHURCH OF SCOTLAND—For a grant 726 petitions ; 18 6,* signatures. CHURCH OF SCOTLAND—Against any grant 317 petitions; 128,134 signatures. CHURCH OF IRELAND—In support of the Establishme nt" 95 petitions; 48,098 signatures. CHURCH OF IRELAND—In favour of the proposed meas tire ' 10 petitions ; 9,725 signatures. TITHES ( IRELAND)—For commutation 5 . petitions ; 133 signatures. TITHES (IRELAND)—For commutation, 1 petition; 273 s i r natures. SPIRIT LICENCES-189 petitions; 12,881 signatures. 6 , STAMPS ON NEWSPAPERS—For Repeal of Duty, 62 P et tions ; 27,890 signatures. TIMBER DUTIES-15 petitions; 2,838 signatures. DISTRESS ( IRELAND)-2 petitions; 952 signatures. DRUNKENNESS—To check the practice of, 55 petitions' 16,332 signatures. EJECTMENT OF TENANTS-2 petitions; 437 signatures. FACTORIES REGULATION BILL--41 petitions; 22,536 s'° . natures. IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT BILL--Against, 42 petitions; 8101' signatures. ti‘ MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS BILL—In favour of, 51 P e tions ; 48,815 signatures. MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS BlLL—Against, 54 petitions; 13,187 signatures. ORANGE LODGES—Against their existence, 2 petitions; signatures. POOR LAWS ( IRELAND)-5 petitions ; 23,522 petitions. CORN LAWS—For Repeal, 1 petition ; 146 signatures. 0 , RECIPROCITY OF DUTIES ACTS-7 petitions ; 947 signatln TWENTY-EIGHTH REPORT. BTII AND 10TH JULY, 1835. BALLOT-26 petitionssignatures. A s 1 61 CHURCH ES TABLISHMENT 6 (IRELAND)-96 petitions ; - signatures. ..111 TITHES ( ST. ANDREW HOLBORN)—For protection lib l 1 0 1 proceedings in the Court of Exchequer to recover arreali r i, tithes alleged by the Rector to be due to him, 1 petition ; 1 ° nature. TrrnEs—For Commutation, 6 petitions ; 213 signature s ' GREENOCK SHIPPING LIST—Seal ; 1 signature. NEWSPAPER STAMPS—For repeal of duty, 65 petit ioo 28,264 signatures. SPIRIT LICENSES ( IRELAND)-1 petition; 1 signature. 14 ,y Timnert DUTIES-Againet Alteration, Is petitions ; signatures. 2. 60 ABERDEEN UNIVERSITIES BILL—FCr further iniorni thereon, 1 petition ; 1 signature. BONDING WAREHOUSES-3 petitions; 124 signatures. DISTRESS ( IRELAND)-3 petitions; 1,037 signatures. IMPRESSMENT OF SEAMEN—For abolition of, 3 petitio,. 4,218 signatures. 0 ' MUNICIPAL. CORPORATIONS BILL—In favour, 59 petition 54,384 signatures. • 5 • ; MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS BlLL—Against, 59 petition 15,522 signatures, • yen MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS BILL (IRELAND)—The pet.t io wo seek a measure as large and liberal in its spirit as is to be g i to England and Wales, 2 petitions; 13,484 signatures. e el , MUSIC AND DANCING LICENSES BILL—In favour, 3 P tions; 45 signatures. POOR LAWS (IRELAND)-6 petitions ; 24,531 petitions. .„,, SALE OF BEER—For placing retailers on a equal 1 0 ' with public houses ; 7 petitions; 24,580 signatures. TWENTY-NINTH REPORT. 13TH AND 14TH JULY, 1835. ; eli s; CHURCH ESTABLISHMENT (IRELAND)- 101 pet , t l- 48,330 signatures. TITHES ( IRELAN e)--For abolition, 38 petitions ; 35 signatures. TITHES*-- r NEWSPAPER STAMPS—For repeal, 67 petitions ; 28,98 1 natures. TIMBER DUTlES—Against alteration, 22 petitions ; 3) 626 signatures. DRUNKENNESS-56 petitions; 16,625 signatures. EDUCATION ( IRELAND)-1 petition; 320 signatures. HAND LOOM WEAVERS-68 petitions; 62,431 signatures' LUNATIC ACT CONTINUANCE BILL-4 ; • MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS BILL—In favour, 62 pet i t i ons' Against, 67 petitions; 19,723. POOR LAW AMENDMENT ACT-13 petitions; 13,03 0 :: natures. SALE OF BEER ACT—From the retail brewers of Ow • South Stafford, for legislative protection, 1 petition ; 245°' natures. TONNAGE ADMEASURENIET-1 petition ; 288 signature s ' n y GREAT YARMOUTH ELECTION--2 petitions ; 2,678 sig . tures. This is the petition (ordered by the Committee O t d. printed in extenso) of ~M r. Thomas Harris, a farmer in Stet kordshire who prays for some legislative measure to Pr o/ ; ( 1 , the English, farmer from the expensive and vexatious proceo ings to which he has been subjected. The petition enlb ° ,oo the Tithe Cabbages case, which excited so strong a sens ate when recently brought forward by Mr. Crompton. The petitioner complains of false and fraudulent Col l t ot ment for nearly six weeks, of being placed in irons and tr eli t y with great cruelty. He prays to be heard previous t ° passing of the Bill. I at ° A BILL for vesting Lighthouses and Lights on the coi,--00 the United Kingdom in the Corporation of the Trinity r,,iog of Deptford and Stroud, and for making provisions resp ec "o 3 Light-houses, Lights, Buoys, Beacons, and Sea.marks , o the Tolls and Duties payable in respect thereof, has just u` printed by order of the House of Commons. By a Return made the Bth of this present month, it apP t o that the following Bills have received the Royal Assent session. British Territories.• Chester Criminal Executions. Consolidated Fund. Dominica Indemnity. Exchequer Bills 15,000,000/. Inns, Alehouses, and Victualling liouses. Isle of Man Corn Trade. Roman Catholic Marriages. Marriage Act Amendment. Newspapers' Regulation. COURTS OF REQUESTS. te a) Mr. Harvey moved for a " Return (which is now Pr il jt° from the different Courts of Requests within the Bills .1 tality, stating the amount of Suitor's Cash which 1 189 ;0 yearly received since the establishment of each Court, an Spa amount which remains unclaimed." By this Return we „01) that from 1812 down to 1831 the amount of suitor's "the (City of LONDON) exceeded 6,0001. annually. In 1 83 1 0 e• amount is stated to be 4,8361., and in the two years if o cl , diately before there is a progressive decrease. Compc,e% e it tli ing the same perind, viz. 1812 to 1831, One Hundred .1; 0) exactly (excepting one year in which 2721. 6s. 11d. Was is the sum that has been annually paid into the Che ill- lain's Court on account of unclaimed suitors' cash. of The TOWER HAMLETS account exhibits a total baletL e j„ if suitors' money amounting to 4,7911. Is. 3d., most of vvb s ee seems, has been expended in building a new court-roofe) in the purchase of Three per Cent. Stock. to sag' Respecting WESTMINSTER, the Commissioners beg il itor. " that as they are informed and believe, the funds of the sjtbeir have most improperly been suffered to remain the hands e' ag clerks. That it is impossible to make the Return order , nets many of the books have been destroyed, as the Comreil thsf believe, to prevent the detection of malpractices ; ei! to such being the facts, no reply other than this can be giv the O ; vvid " Un rd der er. such circumstances, and after deliberately v.e the matters connected with the Courts of Requests fo; A City and Liberties of Westminster, the Commissionerolo of opinion, that to correct the abuses that have existed , a le if prevent their recurrence, the interference of the Legislate necessary." • P al Mr. Hodgson, one of the Clerks of Co urt, after stating tent? ratio ] tion to pr have engin of trj take ( 4C rj ventic Lion f have over t did rir nen Prove] C 4 A --No, Were a "H fully 2- ` i , H uetwe, mined and 114 mites, If y ( In the C tee in 1 the firs r oa d s t point. has op ( ste am deal of a great 4C hi stea m , worku u doub t 0 " Ar unposit became factory. 4, f They at Glot ~ Di tnoval c th e R ol tnittee 1 House i th e LOl " He Your ca full ; "An c ontain is Which Yes ; Mr. Para. 6i " Dc Practice eviden e the sub D; rad ay, c Yo but tha favoura Were el from th "An legislati , " Th It all g , 4' wi general Impose ( the toll hors e c 84 to t( cumbe r Acts hi for, or 1 " Fo] ren ew e( called i: tholic s, Edinbu, IVIO for die str( clef In g he f illur Publ the of a Con ante quer w a drac in C hoe s fled f f °XYI d t gs iieemi 1 b r l e e : : but f light] great porta steam and 3 ---Tli tisefu' he ar steam only ; for pi ,“ M "T