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pursue. lie felt so - strongly the responsibility of the situation in which he was placed, that he was most anxious that the House would agree with him in asking from the Hon. Member an acquiescence in the decision of the House. Mr. SHEIL said that the Noble Lord, at the outset of his declaration, had stated, without being called upon, and by an ticipation, or before he was asked any question, that he took upon himself the responsibility—that he stood as the represen tative of the person who alleged the truth of the statement. — (Loud cries of" No, no.") The Noble Lord had certainly said that he would take upon himself the responsibility of the state ment, that more than one Irish Member had expressed different opinions of the Irish Coercion Bill in and out of the House; in other words, that more than one Irish Member had opposed the Bill, who approved of it, and that this information was communicated to him by an individual for whom he felt respect; but he refused to give the name. Lord PALMERS fON rose to explain his understanding of the word responsibility, as he understood it to be used by the Noble Lord, and certainly as it was understood by himself. The Hon. and Learned Member had called upon the Noble Lord to give the name of his informant. The Noble Lord did what every honourable man would on such an occasion—(Hear, hear) —he refused to give the name; but he took upon himself the responsibility of the statement having been made.— (Hear, hear.) But he did not take upon himself the responsiblility of the correctness of the statement. He merely vouched for the fact, that the statement had been made, and he felt bound to take upon himself the responsibility of having said so.—(Hear.) Mr. SHEIL said that this was a species of diplomacy he did not understand. He hoped the House would give him leave to explain his meaning. When the Noble Lord mentioned that he would not name his informant, he added, that he would take upon himself the responsibility. Now he (Mr. Shell) charged the Noble Lord's informant with falsehood, and the Noble Lord took upon himself the responsibility.—(Loud cries of" No, nol" and great confusion.) Lord ALTHORP rose to explain his meaning. He had stated he had had information that Irish Members who voted against the Coercion Bill approved of it ; that he would not give up his informant, and would take upon himself the re sponsibility of not doing so.—(Hear, hear, and loud cheers.) Sir ROBERT INGLIS said that his impression of the mean ing of the word responsibility as used by the Noble Lord, was just that which was all along affixed to it by the Noble Lord. He could not have meant it in the conventional sense attri buted to it by the Hon. Member for Tipperary. Could any Irian, either in or out of the House, understand the expressions of the Noble Lord in any other sense than that in which he himself had stated he had used them ?—(Hear, hear.) He called on the House to assert the authority of the Chair, and not allow the question to be pursued.—(Hear, hear.) Colonel EVANS understood the Noble Lord to have said, that some Members had spoken differently in private from what they bad expressed as their opinions in public. Now these words did not impute a very serious degree of impropriety in any man, if no further explanation were given of them, or if ~ot in direct contradiction to his public acts. Lord JOHN RUSSELL coincided with the Speaker, in thinking that the privileges of debate would be injured if this question, and such as it, were not kept within the jurisdiction of the House. He hoped that the House would insist that both the Noble Lord and the Honourable and Learned Mem ber should either tacitly or expressly agree—and that in a manner which could leave no doubt of their meaning—that they should not carry the question beyond the walls of the House. Mr. SHEIL said, that the preliminary intimation came from the Noble Lord himself, that he would take upon him ,elf the responsibility, and he (Mr. Sheil) thought it unfair that he should be called on to take a different view than that to which he had been invited by the Noble Lord.—(Cries of " No, no") The SPEAKER was satisfied that the Hon. and Learned Member for Tipperary felt differently on this subject from any other Member in the House.—(Hear.) He had allowed the subject to be proceeded with, from the conviction that the orders of the House should be enforced, and that the question, being once brought before the House, should not be allowed to be dealt with out of doors. And if he now saw reason to doubt, if the orders of the House should be observed without an injunction, he should consider it his duty to impose an in junction on either or both Members. He need hardly add, that if the Hon. Member for Tipperary would not yield to the decision of the House, he should be restrained by its autho rity from doing anything furth'ir in this question but with its permission.—(Hear.) _ _ Sir FRANCIS BURDETT suggested (as we understood) that a Committee of two Members, wholly unconnected both with the Noble Lord and the Hon. Member, should be chosen to inveAtigate the question. The SPEAKER did not suggest anything degrading to the Hon. Member— (Hear, hear)—and after the general feeling expressed in the House, he could assure the Hon. Member that the ease, having been brought under the consideration of the House, ought to be left with its decision ; and he hoped the Hon. Member would bow to the decision of the House. Mr. SHEIL (being then generally called for from all sides) carne forward, and said he hoped the House would see the diffi culty of the unhappy situation in which he was placed. The Noble Lord refused to give the name of the informant, and took the responsibility upon himself. If he had given the name, it would be different ; but why invite him (Mr. Sheil) by taking the responsibility to ask the question ? In conse quence of that invitation, he had considered it his duty to ask the question.—(No, no.) The Noble Lord had gone beyond the question asked him by the Hon. and Learned Member for Dublin. He had gone out of his way, and beyond the inter rogatory, in order to attach to himself this responsibility. The Noble Lord refused to furnish him with the means of ascer taining who his informant was. Why did he do so ? He would ask what sort of man the Noble Lord's informant was ? (Hear.) He (Mr. Sheil) had said nothing offensive to the Noble Lord. He had not told him that he had been a partici pator in the calumny. He (Mr. Sheil) sat down when the Noble Lord took the responsibility on himself. Mr. E. STANLEY thought the House should insist on both parties—the Noble Lord and the Hon. and Learned Member for Tipperary—giving their word to the House, that nothing would be done in the matter out of doors. The SPEAKER said, that if the Hon. and Learned Gentle- Nan thought he meant to place him in a worse situation than he : would any other Hon. Member under similar circumstances. he did ;," 4111 an injustice. The reason Why he was averse, if it could be avoid; to the House coming to any fixed resolution on the subject was, that those Hon. Members who did not take part in the proceedings that evening, as well as those who did, might think that every personal quarrel that occurred between Hon. Members ought to be brought before the House for its decision.—(Hear.) He (the Speaker) was sure the Hon. and Learned Member for Tipperary would not better his position by refusing to comply with the wish expressed, that he would pledge himself not to take any proceedings in the matter out of the House. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman, he was cer tain, would, on cool calculation, see the reasonableness of the view which he (the Speaker) took of the question; If he did not make the suggested pledge voluntarily, the House must do its duty, however reluctantly. Sir ROBERT PEEL said the House did not wish to place the Hon. and Learned Gentleman in any unfavourable position by the concession it suggested to him to make ; neither did it place him in any unfavourable position. It was necessary to separate the public from the private part of the question. He conceived that the Hon. and Learned Gentleman had no Tight to construe the language made use of by the Noble lord into a personal afil•ont.—(Hear, hear.) The Hon. and Learil'ed Gentleman had asked the Noble Lord—not as a pri vate individual, but in his capacity as Minister—whether he was the party referred to as having made use of the language in question rebtive to the Bill for the suppression of disturb ances in Ireland, ,and the Noble Lord answered that he was the party referred to, The Noble Lord said he would not give up the name of his informant, but was es rponsible for the fact of such communication having been made to him. Surely it could never be pretended that the Noble Lord meant, by the language he employed, that he was to make himself personally responsible for the statement.—(Hear, hear.) On his (Sir R. Peel's) honour, he thought that the construction which the Hon. and Learned Gentleman's sensitiveness led him to put upon the Noble Lord's language was 'not warranted.—(Hear, hear.) He thought the Hon. and Learned Gentleman would be making no dishonourable concession to the House, either as a man or as a Member of that House, by voluntarily de claring that he would take no further steps in the matter. Mr. SHEIL felt himself in a very peculiar and unpleasant position. The Noble Lord said he believed in the accuracy of the information.—(Hear, hear, hear, from the Irish Members.) He said that he would not give up the name of his informant, but would vouch for the truth of the communication.—(Cries of " No, no.") The Noble Lord had made a gratuitous statement when he expressed his belief in the truth of the communica- Aso made to him. Mr, STANLEY had not communicated either directly or ind"redly with his Noble Friend on the subject ; but if he might ctercise his own judgment on the matter, the Noble ford coulu never have meant, by the language he made use of, an thin offensfv-, to the Hon. and Learned Gentleman. The g question which the 17!)n. and Learned Gentleman put to his Noble Friend was, whether he (Mr. Shell) was the individual meant. The Noble Lord said he leas one of the parties ; that he had received a communication to that effect, but would not give up the name of his informant , but would take the re on the face - s p on sibility on himself. There was ne individual of the earth more incapable of giving peragnal offence than his Noble Friend. With all the Hon. and Learned Gentle man's sensibility, as a Member of that House, and as a man of honour, he thought there could be nothing dishonourable in following the course which had been tuggest.ed to him.— (Hear, hear.) Lord ALTHORP said that all he meant by the terms he lidd employed simply was, that he vouched for the respecta bility a his informant, but that he would not give up the name of that informant. He disclaimed all wish to give offence hi making such statement; but if any Hon. Gentle man did take offence at his words, he (Lord Althorp) would not shrink from what he had said.—(Hear, hear.) Colonel LEITH 41ArY thought that a more injurious course to himself than thalihich the Hon. and Learned Gentleman was pursuing coutd - not be pursued.—(Hear, hear.) To endea- I your to fix on the personal character of the Noble Lord, when he only spoke in his capacity of Minister, appeared to him (Col. Leith Hay) to be conduct unworthy of any Member of that House. As a private individual, he (Col. Leith Hay) had also had a similar communication made to him respecting the con duct of certain Irish Members relative to the Bill for the Sup pression of Disturbances in Ireland, but he would also refuse to give up the name of his informant. He would tell the Hon. and Learned Member that, if he wished it, he (Col. Leith Hay) Would also take the responsibility on himself.—(Hear, hear.) ir ritit>,TClS OUBPETT thought that nothing that had ti . been that evening said, in the course the long discussion which had taken place, could hurt any on. Member in his public capacity. Hit (Sir Francis Burd t) could say, that to comply with the wishes of the House would be the best course for the Hon. and Learned Gentleman to adopt ; but if he did not voluntarily and gracefully comply with the wish expressed by the House, there would be no other alternative left but to put both parties into custody.—(Hear, hear.) The SPEAKER was sure the House, as well as himself, meant nothing offensive to the Hon. and Learned Member for Tipperary, but if he did not adopt the recommendation made to him, and promise not to prosecute the matter out of doors, the House would feel obliged to follow the usual course in such cases. He was sure the Hon. and Learned Gentleman would see they had no wish to place him in a false position, for if he would consult the journals of the House, he would find that in all similar cases where such assurances were not given, the pri. vileges of the House were exercised, and the parties put under restraint. ' " Mr. HARDY said, that no man could be more anxious than himself that nothing should be done in this matter out of doors, but he did not see that the character of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman would be safe, unless the House put him in a condi tion to prove his innocence of the charge which had been pre ferred against him. The Member for Hull had said that one of the Irish Members, while voting against the Coercion Bill, had privately expressed his wish that such Bill should pass; adding, that if it did not, there would be no living with safety in Ire land. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman had asked the Noble Lord whether he was meant as the individual who had used such language and been guilty of such conduct ? The Noble Lord replied that he was. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman denied, in the most solemn manner, that he had ever made such statement. He was, therefore, placed in a situation of peculiar cruelty. Every one must be anxious to prevent those unplea sant results from this affair which were contemplated ; but, in wishing to do this, it was but a matter of justice to fhe Hon. and Learned Member to promise him an investigation into the matter, that he might have an opportunity of vindicating his character. He thought the Noble Lord should acquiesce in the wish which had been expressed, and acknowledge that he had been misled by his informant. Mr. RUTHVEN rose amidst loud cries of " Oh, oh!" He would ask what encouragement Irish Members had to speak in that House when they were assailed with such cries as those he then heard. He wished to know from which of the Hon. Members those cries proceeded.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) He (Mr. Ruthven) had no wish to make matters worse. He was glad the Noble Lord did not wish to shield himself by say ing he spoke in his Ministerial character. He (Mr. Ruthven) would interpret the language made use of in the way such language usually was interpreted, and he hesitated not to say, that the Hon. and Learned Member for Tipperary was placed by it in a dishonourable position. He would have expected that the Noble Lord and his friends would have at once ac quiesced in the wish to have the matter investigated. It was due to the Hon. and Learned Gentleman that such inquiry should be instituted. He trusted the Irish Members would unite together and demand that the inquiry be made. If it should be refused, it would be a harsh and cruel thing. He (Mr. Ruthven) believed the statement was a calumny, a foul slander on the Hon. and Learned Gentleman. Sir H. HARDINGE thought the Noble Lord was placed in a difficult situation. He felt himself bound by a sense of honour not to give up the name of his informant. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman was placed in a very peculiar position. It was consequently a matter of very great difficulty for the House to do justice to both parties. He thought the parties should be put under temporary restraint, in order that the House might have time to deliberate on what course they ought to adopt in the matter. That he thought would be the best thing they could do in the present position of the affair. He would second a motion to that effect. Mr. COBBETT held the whole matter which had that even. ing occupied the House in great contempt; but then he must say that he thought that the Hon. and Learned Member for Tipperary had been harshly treated. The state of the case ap peared to him (Mr. Cobbett) to be similar to this :—One of a company was accused of stealing a horse. An individual gets up and says, "Isit I P" He is answered by another, " Yes; you are the man." The accused demands the name of the in formant ; the other says, " Oh no,' give it up; but I my self assume the responsibility."— (Laughter.) Mr. ABERCROMBIE hoped that after the complexion which the unfortunate matter had assumed, which appeared to be serious, the House would not separate until measures were taken to restrain the parties from any further steps in it. He did not think it was at all necessary to annex the condition of inquiry to that of restraint. The case was a very peculiar one for the House to consider. He (Mr. Abercrombie) was not prepared to consent to inquiry into the matter. He was sure that no Hon. Member who had taken part in the discussion wished to say or do anything that could affect the Hon. and Learned Gentleman's personal honour. If he did voluntarily give the House an assurance that there would be nothing more done by him in the matter, there would be an end of it; but if he did not, the House could not, in justice to itself or to the parties, rise without putting both under restraint. Even if the House did not come to any decision on the subject, he (Mr. Abercrombie) conceived the Noble Lord should not make any reply out of the House to any communication the Hon. and Learned Gentleman might make to him on the subject. He would submit to the House whether it ought not to adopt the suggestion of the Hon. Baronet (Sir F. Burdett) relative to this matter.—(Hear, hear.) An Iftisit MEMBER, whose name we did not learn, thought it nothing more than ' just and proper that the first step towards explanation should proceed from the other (the Ministerial) side of the House. If he understood the Noble Lord, he meant to attach the same import to the language he had made use of as the Hon. and Learned Gentleman himself had done. He therefore hoped the Noble Lord would express his concur rence in the wish expressed, that an inquiry into the matter shpuld took place. Mr. O'DWYER did not rise for the purpose of adding to the excitement which already existed on this painful subject; but he felt that he would be guilty of a gross neglect of his duty, if he did not express his conviction that it would be unjust to restrain the Hon. and Learned Gentleman from taking any course his honour suggested, while the Noble Lord was left at at liberty not to retract one word of the expressions he had made use of. He (Mr. O'Dwyer) understood the Noble Lord to say he believed the statement of his informant relative to the Hon. and Learned Gentleman. If that statement was true, the Hon. and Learned Gentleman was not only unfit to be a Member of that House, but to associate with gentlemen. The Noble Lord had not admitted that he might have been deceived by his informant. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman had de nounced the statement as a gross calumny, and it was unfair that he should be put under restraint. From the explanations which had been made that evening in the course of the present discussion, the communication had been deprived of the harsh features it previously possessed. It was admitted that the Hon. Member for Hull had told a foul calumny. Nothing of the kind alleged by him had occurred—never had a more gross attack been made on a body of respectable individuals. He hoped the author would yet be given up to receive the reward due to him for so outrageous a calumny. Sir FRANCIS BURDETT moved, that the Speaker put it to both parties whether or not they would voluntarily assure the House that nothing should be done out of the House rela tive to this matter. Mr. HILL was extremely sorry that anything which he had said should have led to this unpleasant discussion. When he first heard the report alluded to, he believed it to be true—he still believed it to be true, and if a Committee were appointed to inquire into the matter, he would use his best exertions to furnish every possible information on the subject ; and if it should turn out that the report was unfounded, he would feel it his duty to make reparation for the error into which he had been led. The SPEAKER said the longer the discussion on this topic was extended, the deeper did they get entangled in differences and misunderstandings on it. He thought the Hon. and Learned Gentleman must be aware that it was now his (the Speaker's) duty to call on both parties to assure the House, that no pro ceedings should take place on this subject out of doors. He thought it right to tell them, that the House did not propose harsher terms to them than would be proposed to other Mem bers similarly circumstanced. There was no other alternative left, unless the parties, on foreseeing what the decision of the House would be, would anticipate that decision, by giving a voluntary assurance that this matter should not be prosecuted out of doors. It was now his (the Speaker's) duty to call . on each of the parties to see whether they would give that aisu ranee or not. The SPEAKER then put the question to Mr. Sheil, who made no answer. Some confusion occurred in the House at this moment. We understood Sir FRANCIS Buancrr to move, before the question was put to Lord Althorp, that both parties be put under re straint. On the question being put to the Noble Lord, he said that he had received no offence, and that nothing that had passed that evening should induce him to proceed further. Mr. O'CONNELL said that the Noble Lord might well say he had received no offence, but he had given offence. The Noble Lord had not gone far enough in his denial of any inten tion to proceed further with the matter, because he was, to use his (Mr. O'Connell's) own law terms, defendant, and not plaintiff in the case. He felt that his Hon. and Learned Friend had ........ --. __ _ been harshly used by the House. An HoN. MEMBER here remarked, that the reply of the Noble Lord simply conveyed the impression that he would not send a hostile message. The SPEAKER said that he understood the answer of the Noble I f ord to mean that he would not only not give a call to the Hon. and Learned Gentleman, but that he would not re. spond to a call if given him by the Hon. and Learned Gentle man, To that extent he (the Speaker) felt himself bound to go, and to that extent he understood the Noble Lord's answer to go. Lord ALTHORP would not give, but would respond to a call.—(Loud cries o€" Hear, hear.") Sir ROBERT PEEL was sure it would be most in accord. once with the feelings of all parties that both the Noble Lord and the Hon. and Learned Gentleman should be forthwith taken into custody. The SPEAKER then put the motion, that they be both taken into custody, which was agreed to without a dissentient voice. Lord Althorp and Mr. Shell were then removed in the cus tody of the Sergeant-at-Arms. Mr. O'CONNELL obtained a further suspension of the issue of a new writ for the borough of Carrickfergus till that day three weeks. Mr. BERNAL, in the absence of Mr. R. Ferguson, moved for a further suspension of the issue of a new writ for Warwick till the 15th March. Mr. HALCOMB did not see that any case bad been made out to authorise any further suspension of the writ for War- wick, and he should move as an amendment that the writ issue at once. Mr. BERNAL, however, in the absence of Sir Robert Fer guson, preferred - postponing his motion till tomorrow (this day.) Sir S. WHALLEY said, that in the course of last session an inquiry into the conduct of Lord Warwick, with reference to the election of this borough, had been mooted, but Ministers had obtained a postponement of the subject till this session, promising in the meantime a thorough investigation into the matter on the return of his Lordship from abroad. His Lord. ship had returned some time since, and the session was begun. He (Sir S. W.) therefore begged leave to ask Ministers what had been the result oftheir inquiries, and whether they were prepared to move for an address to his Majesty, praying him to remove his Lordship from the high office which he had so dis gracefully and unconstitutionally abused ? Mr. S. RICE replied, that he was not prepared to answer the question at that particular moment; but the Hon. Member on looking at the list would find that the subject was to be brought before the House. Mr. HALCOMB entreated every Member, as a matter of justice to the Noble Lord, carefully to go over the evidence given before the Committee who sat on this subject, which he maintained by no means bore out the report. Mr. BERNAL obtained leave to bring in a Bill for altering the franchise in the borough of Hertford election, on the grounds of bribery and corruption. The same Hon. Member also obtained a suspension of the issue of a new writ for that borough till Wednesday week. An HoN. MEMBER gave notice of a motion for the 20th March, for an address praying his Majesty to hold his Court and Parliament occasionally in Ireland. Mr. SPRING RICE suggested the propriety of passing the orders to which objections were not likely to be made. Mr. BRISCOE gave notice of a motion for a return of the number of inquests held within the King's Bench during a cer. tain period. Mr. HUME asked why did not the notice extend to the en. tire county ? Mr. STANLEY, Who had been in communication with Lord Althorp, here entered the House, and, addressing the Speaker, said, he would not, in the information he had to communicate, make any observations upon what had previously taken place, nor renew the discussion on the merits of a question which had for so long a time occupied the consideration of the House on that evening. He was happy to say that he was the bearer of a communication which he felt perfectly confident it would give as high satisfaction to the House to hear, as it did to him to communicate.—(Hear.) His Noble Friend the-Chancellor of the Exchequer, having consulted with his-friends 04 course he ought to pursue, felt, on reviewing the proceedings of the even. ing, that it was due to his own character, as well as to the wisdom and authority of the House, to bow to a decision—a decision which would in itself be a sufficient authority to pre serve all personal dignity. In coming to this conclusion, at the instance of friends, whom no earthly consideration could induce to hint to him, ever so remotely, any line of conduct which would in the slightest degree derogate from his personal character, he was actuated by the respect which he entertained for that House—by a desire to uphold its authority, and a wish to further the business of the House, which a contrary conduct would tend to impede. His Noble Friend was now ready to give full assurance that he would take no further steps in this business, nor resort to any hostile measures, in consequence of anything which had occurred in the previous proceedings. Having made this statement, which he hoped would prove satis factory to the House, he (Mr. Stanley) would now move that Lord Althorp be released from arrest.--(Cheers.) Mr. HUME seconded the motion ; and added that, under the circumstances, the Speaker had no other alternative than that to which he had resorted—an alternative in which he (Mr. Hume) concurred, as the only means calculated to sustain the dignity and authority of the House. _ . The SPEAKER, before putting the question, said, that though he had so often addressed them during the discussion which led to it, he would still, in a very few words, express his great satisfaction at this result. After the observations made by the Right Hon. Secretary, there could not be two opinions upon the subject. No one could doubt that, in the course be adopted, the Noble Lord had greatly added to his private and to his public character. The motion was then carried, when _ _ Mr. RUTHVEN (as well as we could catch his observa tions) urged even justice and equal treatment of both parties. Mr. SHAW urged the propriety of the Member for Hull making a declaration similar to that of Lord Althorp. Mr. HILL (as well as we could hear, amidst the cheers for Lord Althorp, who just then entered) said, that he would of course, if called on, bow to the decision of the Chairman. After a lapse of some minutes, Mr. HUME entered the House, and said that, after what bad transpired, he and other friends of the Honourable Mem ber for Tipperary had been with him, and he had the satisfac tion to state that the Honourable and Learned Gentleman, being anxious to show his respect to the orders of the House, and without giving any opinion upon the subject which had placed him in his present situation, had deter mined to submit himself to their wishes.—(Hear, hear.) He, with other friends, had stated to the Honourable and Learned Gentleman, that in so doing, he was confident that so far from derogating from his character as a man of honour, he would place himself in a higher and more estimable situation. The only feeling by which the Hon. and Learned Gentleman was in fluenced was a disposition to conform to thosr salutar, orders which the House, in its wisdom, had thought proper to enforce. He therefore moved that Richard I.alor Sheil, Esq., should be discharged out of the custody of the Sergeant-at-Arms, offering, on his part, an assurance that the Hon. and Learned Gentle man would not prosecute out of that House the subject which had occupied so much of their time that evening.—(Hear.) Sir E. KNATCHBULL seconded the motion. The SPEAKER, in rising to put the question, begged to express his great gratification at the course taken by'the Hon. and Learned Gentleman, and he would assure the Hon. ai►d Learned Member, that not only the House, but the country at large, would feel that he had best maintained his own honour, and best consulted his personal dignity, by upholding the dignity and character of that House.—(Hear, hear.) The question was then put and carried. _ Shortly after, Mr. Sheil entered the House, accompanied by Mr. Finn. The Hon. Member was cheered on resuming his seat. - Colonel EVANS put a question to Lord Althorp concerning his financial statement, which the latter said would be brought on next week or the week after. Mr. YOUNG gave notice of a motion on an early day, for the abolition of the Port Duties of London, and the repeal of the Reciprocity of Duties Act. The House adjourned at ten o'clock. SPAIN. (From a Morning Contemporary.) MADRID, JAN. 25.—The retirement of M. Zea, accompanied by Gonzales, the Minister of Grace and Justice, produced, as might have been expected, a tender on the part of his only re maining colleagues, Don Xavier de Burgos and Don Zarco del Valle, of the seals of the Home-office and the War Department. The intimate connexion which has long subsisted between Zarco del Valle and the virtual head of the Administration, the Marquis de las Amarillas, left no doubt on the public mind that his resignation would not be willingly accepted. With regard to Burgos, the case was not supposed to be the same. It now appears, however, that Martinez de la Rosa makes the continu ance of Burgos at the Home Department a condition sine qua non of his own retention of the seals of the Department of State. The deference thus shown to the talents and services of Burgos will have the best effect in consolidating the new Administration, although the conciliatory spirit evinced towards an acknowledged afrancesado will scarcely be forgiven by many of the men by whom Martinez de la Rosa is now sur rounded. If the afrancesados could all be excluded from office indiscriminately, the chance would be improved for those purer patriots who never served under Joseph, and who now crowd the ante-chambers of Martinez de la Rosa. Of 75 in waiting the other morning for an audience, it was ascertained that this object of 73 was to ask for some modest place under Govern ment. But although Burgos is to remain as well as Zarco del Valle, it is already felt that the new Ministry has not in every point been satisfactorily constituted. In selecting a Minister of Finance the chief consideration seems to have applied to the new candidate's integrity. On this ground there could of course be no objection to Don Josef Aranalde. In every other respect, however, he is now spoken of as inferior to his prede. cessor, Martinez, so that his resignation is already confidently predicted. Almost the only public act of his administration since his accession to office—the nomination of a commission to inquire into the origin, amount, and present condition of the public debt of Spain, contracted since the year 1823—has been criticized with unsparing severity. The name of Don Rufino Garcia Carrasco in particular is strongly objected to. It is not denied that this person, who is a native of Estremadura, has been able very recently to render important services to the Government. From the nature of the trade which he has long been carrying on near the frontier, and from his numerous con nexions within the Portuguese territory, he was able to furnish the best possible information to the Captain-General Rodil as to the daily movements of Don Carlos. These were services, however, which ought, it is said, to have been paid with the coin of the realm, and not by means of an appointment to an office of trust and confidence. From all this you will see, whatever the sticklers for abstract principles may say to the contrary, that a Minister's patronage cannot now be exercised in this country without a large share of moral responsibility. Since the date of my last communication, a royal decree has been issued, countersigned by Don Zarco del Valle, de nouncing severer measures than any hitherto pursued against such of the insurgents as shall henceforth be made prisoners. The decree sets out with declaring that the Queen Regent, in her maternal solicitude, has omitted no opportunity for un deceiving the blinded enemies of her daughter's throne and of the national prosperity, but that not having succeeded in preventing them at certain points of the kingdom, as in Bis cay and Navarre, from recommencing their criminal proceed ings, the painful necessity has arisen of adopting such measures of severity as may be best suited to put an end to the evils with which these unfortunate districts are afflicted. To this end it is decreed that every individual engaged in insurrec ion (with the exception of the chiefs and such as have usurped the title of officers, who are to suffer the extreme penalty of the law) as soon as apprehended by the troops of the line, the civil power, or the peasantry, is to be draughted into regular regiments, where he is to serve for six years, those enjoying the rank of sergeant or corporal being destined for Ceuta, the Havannah, and the companies on duty in the African presidencies, and the others for the interior of Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Philippines. It was doubtless time for the adoption of some such wholesome measures of severity, as the readiness with which the insurgents were heretofore suffered to return to their homes, perhaps loaded with spoil, after a foraging ex cursion in some loyal and peaceable neighbourhood, had not only a tendency to excite discontent among these who listened to their boasting, and saw the substantial fruits of their success, but induced the depredators themselves to regard these excursions as they would a party of pleasure, not wholly free from danger indeed, but the danger amply compen sated by the concomitant excitement, the hope of plunder, and the numerous chances of pardon or impunity. The activity displayed by Geronimo Valdez in following up the victory of Nagar and Azarta has hitherto prevented the in surgents from re-assembling the whole of their dislocated force, and realizing their threat of again offering battle to the troops of the Queen. Dispersed as they are, however, over the king dom of Navarre and the three provinces of Biscay, it is not to be wondered at if the high-road to Bayonne be found insecure for travellers, and if the whole of the surrounding district remain in a ferment of agitation. An English gentleman, who left Madrid a few days ago, was advised by the authorities at To losa either not to prosecute his intention of proceeding to Bayonne, or at least to provide himself with a strong military escort. Having chosen the latter alternative, he was furnished with 20 picked men, five of whom were sent to reconnoitre the ground in advance, while the rest remained about the carriage for the protection of the traveller's person. About a league from Tolosa, in passing through a village which skirts the road, the advanced party were attacked by a body of insurgents much more numerous than themselves, and on the carriage coming up a general engagement took place, in the course of which the poor traveller's situation must have been anything but en viable. At length, however, the insurgents gave way, but not until after one of the soldiers of the escort had been killed, and his death had been amply revenged by his comrades, who suc ceeded in securing several prisoners, who will doubtless be dealt with at Tolosa according to their deserts. The gentle man, who was intrusted with despatches from the English embassy, has written from Bayonne that he met with no further interruption. The Duke de Rivas has already resigned his office of sub. delegate de fomento for the new province of Cordova, and Don Juan Antonia Delgado, from Huesca, has been appointed in his room. The vacancy at Huesca has been supplied by the nomi nation of Don Francisco de Romo y Gamboa. Don Jose Berriz y Guzman has been appointed sub-delegate at the Canaries. The funds have been gradually rising since the late change of ministry until today, when a considerable fall took place, partly owing to the effect of a reaction from Paris, and partly to large sales of a domestic origin. JAN. %.—The most distant of the provinces of Peninsular Spain have now answered to the appeal which was made to them on the occasion of the change of Ministry, and in every direction the voice of the capital has been faithfully re-echoed, to the per. fect satisfaction of the Government. The accounts from Santander and Cadiz, Malaga and Granada,Valencia and Barcelona, are all marked by the same characteristics, although proceeding from parties who could have had no communication with each other. The report I was enabled to transmit to you at the close of my last letter, of a communication having been made by this Government to Don Miguel, on the subject of the continued presence of the Spanish Pretender, Don Carlos, on the Por tuguese territory, has since acquired more consistency. It appears that the Conde de Toreno has actually set out for Santarem with a commission from the Queen Regent, autho rizing him to intimate to Don Miguel that the presence of Don Carlos on any part of the Portuguese territory under the control of Don Miguel, will be regarded and resented as an act of open hostility against Spain. It is even stated in let ters from Salamanca, that the troops of Don Miguel and those of Queen Isabella have already come to blows on the frontier. As in that district of Old Castile, and along the whole line of Spanish Estremadura, public opinion is more decided than perhaps in any other district of Spain against Don Carlos, and his supposed abettor, Don Miguel, it is not impossible that the repeated inroads of Rodil and Morillo in quest of the Pretender may have led to some act of retaliation, which would not be easily tolerated on this side of the frontier. As yet, however, there is no official authority for the fact, and it is not unlikely to prove a mere anticipation. Zabala and his confederates of the North, in proportion as their fortunes become desperate, seem to be acquiring that sort of courage which corresponds with their situation. The city of Vittoria, although in some sort the centre of operations of the forces under the command of Geronimo Valdez, is constantly exposed to the most daring intrusions. The sentinels are killed at their posts in the interior of the town by solitary as sassins, and the suburbs of Arechabaleta and Gardelegui have suffered from more open acts of violence. The corregidor of the one has been wounded, and the parish priest of the other has been tied neck and heels by flying parties of insurgents, whose chief object seems to have been to recruit their strength among the young men of these suburban villages in despite of the civil authorities, and almost within range of their enemy's guns. The town of Onate, within a short distance of Salva tierra, to which Geronirno Valdez had moved his head-quarters a fortnight ago, has been for the last eight days in the posses_ sion of a corps of 2,000 insurgents, under the command of a resident in the town, who, it seems, has established his quarters very comfortably in his own house. From thence he sends out foraging parties, who ravage the whole neighbourhood, up to the very suburbs of Pampeluna and Vittoria. When other means fail, they seize on the principal inhabitants of the towns and villages, and compel them to save their lives by sending for the means of ransom. It is expected, that the known activity of General Jauregui, who has already crossed over from Na varre into Guipuscoa, in pursuance of the orders of the com mander-in-chief, will speedily produce the dispersion of the bands assembled in Onate. The separation of the three insur_ gent chiefs, Alza, Iturriaga, and Villa Real, is already spoken of as the signal of their preparing for flight. The destination of the first is said to be Elorrio or Marquiva, that of the second Ascoitia or the mountains of Aranzazu, and that of the third the town of Elguea, in the province of Alava. After the breaking up and dispersion of the insurgent forces in the north, by the rapid movements of Jauregui, we may ex. pect to hear of inroads and disturbances in the neighbouring provinces. Thus the town of Sanguesa, on the confines of the kingdom of Arragon, has already been alarmed by parties of fugitives from Navarre, and there are letters in town this morning from Saragossa, which say that a great deal of heavy firing had been heard in the direction of the town of Lumbier, which is also near the frontiers of Navarre. In Catalonia, also, the known adherents of Don Carlos have taken the alarm. The two brothers Targarona, the one a colonel and the other a captain of cavalry, accompanied by other chiefs, are known to have taken refuge in France, where they were imme diately placed under the care of an escort, and conducted to some depot in the interior. You are aware that nearly 100 members of the corps of Royalist Volunteers of the capital, who made an attempt to re sist the order which was issued in October last for their laying down their arms, have ever since been in confinement, prepa ratory to their trial before the permanent military tri. bunal of the province of New Castile. The trial has just been begun, no less than ninety-nine individuals hav ing been called on to answer the same accusation. The first two days have been occupied with :the reading of the act of accusation and the written answers of the prisoners to the interrogatories which have been put to them preparatory to their trial. In the sitting of yesterday the public prosecutor, called the fiscal, declared that it was his purpose to call on the tribu nal to pronounce the last penalty of the law on 73 of the pri soners, restricting the punishment with regard to twenty of the remainder to eight years of garrison duty, to half that period of duty with regard to four of the other prisoners, and for the re. maining two, the drum-major and one of the regimental band, six months' imprisonment. In the course of the next sitting the prisoners will open their defence, but it is generally believed, from the evidence on record, that the judgment of the Court will prove an echo of the requisition of the fiscal. The clemency of the Queen Regent will doubtless then interfere to save the great majority of the prisoners from the fate which would other wise await them. The latitude allowed by the royal decree, or, as it is called by courtesy, the law of the 4th of January, for the dissemination of opinions not religious or political by means of the press, without the intervention of a previous censorship, is already produsing the good effects expected from it. The present Government of Spain is perfectly aware that it has nothing to gain by keeping the mass of the people in a state of intellectual darkness. SEVILLE, JAN. `22.—The news of a change in the Ministry has produced here some sensation. On the one hand the army, the monks, arid the clergy, have all taken the alarm; on the other the Liberal party, till now so timid and so fearful, have gathered a little - courage and certain symptoms of energy. Be fore the arrival of the post yesterday, which brought us the official announcement of the renewal of the Administration, the event was already anticipated, and an impulse had, in con sequence, been given to public opinion. But the Captain- General Tacon, who perfectly understands the Andalusian character, was convinced, however exalted their language, their habitual prudence and circumspection, when something more than words is in question, they would prevent him from making anything of the Liberal party, unless he could contrive so to push them on, as to force them to commit themselves irre trievably in the cause of the young Queen. What, then, did he do ? In a former letter I told you that the requisitions ad dressed to the people, calling on them to enrol themselves in the corps of the Urban Militia, had not been attended with results more satisfactory than at Granada. Eight days ago there were scarcely fifty names inscribed for the infantry, and but five for the cavalry. In this state of matters, the Captain-Ge neral began to see that unless the affair took another course the project of raising an Urban Militia in Seville would fall to the ground. On Sunday last he caused the Junta de Comercio, or Committee of Commerce, to be convoked, and pointed out to its members how much it was for their own interest and safety that an armed force composed of elements best suited for the main tenance of public tranquillity and the security of property should be speedily organized. On being pressed individually, the mem bers of the Junta endeavoured to excuse themselves. They pointed out the danger to which they might be exposed, having besides no guarantee from the Government, by identifying them selves with a body the rolls of which might become, as after 1823, so many lists of proscription ; for although silent and ronnegstthhe eodfmintdoah most ent named dt notedpt Junta,ha ye calm in the southern provinces of Spain, the Carlist and monkish faction have nevertheless their eyes open, and would not fail to osn.:dcHtthhoe the s p r inr e o p o t v l b se i most d i this ntr h ht e s aeftlCaptain-Generalrftohmine gentlemenae ma persecute as unrelentingly as ever in case of reaction. bon-gre mal-gre,.. should certainly be inscribed on the rolls of th much U r selecting b To arema attention.s it o lhi n tei i ma ng fa next day ex-qfficto the whole of the officers of a first battalion, merchants .of the place. These gentlemen were doubtless not a little surprised on receiving theirvonnissions, but as the Intel ligence of the late changes at Mattrid happened to arrive at the same time, they accepted their a p po i n t men t s w ith th e be s t grace possible, and now it is not doubted that they will apply them- .ti - -' ',~~_ 40 1, - selves zealously to the business of recruiting, so as to organize the corps, of which all that yet exists is the staff. At all events the Urban Militia of Seville can scarcely be very numerous. Ido not exaggerate in saying that the clergy, the monks, and their dependants, form almost half of the population. The greater part of the real property of the town is concentrated in their hands. The cathedral alone possesses a thousand houses ; and of ten thousand and upwards which exist in Se ville at least two-thirds are ecclesiastical property. You will not be surprised at this when I tell you that, between monks and nuns, there are in this town nearly a hundred convents, besides twenty-five parish churches, chapels, oratories, and beatorios without number. This proportion is pretty much the same at Grenada, Jaen, and Cordova, each of these cities having its cathedral, and its opulent chapter or cabildo. But to speak here only of Seville, pray what is to be expected from such a deplorable state of things ? The city, once so flourishing, from whence the ships of artes and Ojeda, Columbus and Magellan, took their departure, has been gradually ruined by the encroach ments of the clergy. Its resources eaten up, and its industry paralyzed, there is now nothing to be seen in its deserted har bour, but a few small vessels engaged in the coasting trade of the Mediterranean. A grievance of a local nature has added to the discontent occasioned to the clergy by the late changes in the Ministry. On the occasion of the carnival, the authorities have given their sanction to a series of masked bolls, at which the priest ridden part of the community areofane extremely scandalous indignant, at de g them as exceedingly p mo ment when these provinces o f S p ain have been visited with such , a committed by the cholera. I n s p ite of the ill humour of the such un c e dent tokens of the Divine d is p leasure in the ravages clergy, however, it is evident that all who are not under their r i mme di a te influence, are perfectly well satisfied with the pre. sent aspect of affairs, th anks to the Madrid Gazette of the 15th J a nuary. The troops of t he g arrison were reviewed by the Captain_ General the day before y esterda y , when a distribution of crosses and decorations took place. The inhabitants of the as not less am town flocked out in crowds, and the scene w a cowl or a sotana mated or less gay b ec ause there was scarcely to be seen among them. . --------- PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY A' , ONF O'CLOCK. Sank Stcwc M% -- India Stock ................. 3 pc* Cent. Red. B9 . --- 3 per Cent. Cons. 8814%14 Ditto Bonds... ........ 29 29 pm. 334 rcr Cent. 9 7 14 South Sea Stock ............ 101 M Oat° Red „„97%% Old Annuities ........ . ..... New3)4 per lent. IIO4N New Ditt0............ ... --- I per Cent. Ann. 1728 — 3 per Cent. Ann. 1751 .... --- I per Cent. 1826 !lank Long Ann. to expire Ditto 50P...... 46 47 pm. al. 5, 1861. l7 3-16 Ditto Small «. . ...... 46 47 pm. Oct. 10, 1459 17 1-16'l Ditto Commercial ....... Pm. Jan. 5, 1860 16 13-16 Ditto Advertised ........• 515. Jan. t., 1880........ « ..... Bank for Account Aprils, 1880 ..... ........ --, India for Account - Jan. 5, 1870 ...... ........ Cons. for Account BBN PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds - 99 1 4 Belgian Bonds 97% Ditto Account 97% Brazilian Bonds 70'1i % Ditto Account 70U 104 Buenos Ayres Bonds 2l Ditto Account — Chilian Bonds 26 5% Ditto Account — Columbian Bonds 2114 Ditto Account. Ditto Bonds, 1824 243 , Ditto ACCNInt 24i7, Oafish 80n.:3 ' 74 1 4 Ditto Account 74 Greek Bonds = Ditto Bonds, 1825 Ditto Account — Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent 29 }6 Ditto Account ... Jtt o, per cent 4O Ditto Account 404 Neapolitan B9 PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCX• Paid. Per Share. Alten Mining Company £7 9% Angio mex. min. +.A3. kiss. at 54 pm ) XlOO 8% Bolanos Mining Company ..£l5O 137% Brazilian Mining Company £s 15 Brazilian Imp. Min. Co. (iss. at 5/. pm.) £2O ~ Ditto National 22% Ditto St. John Del Rey Cata Branca Mining Company 3% British Iron Mining Comoany £so Columbian Miuinl Co. piss at 54 pm.) 51% English Mining Company ..,.. 12% general Mining Association ... ...... ... _l2 93 1 4 9% 8 .., Hibernian Mining Co. £lo 4 Mexican Mining Co £4B 12 Real dcl Monte Mining Co....(unreg.) —50 k, i 'rated Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 21. pm.) 40 11 Ditto New Sczip 5 14 Alliance Fire insurance Comp. ...... lO 11% Protector I nsurance Comp. Australian Co. Canada Company General Steam Navigation Co l3 14 National Provincial Bank of England 5 % Rio Doce Provincial Bank of Ireland 25 39 TRICKS OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, FEB. 3. Bat .k Stock.... —.......i5t. Patrick insur.(perShare Consols, 3 per cent Gas , . Stock, 33 per cent. 95% I National Ditto — D.tto, New 953 !Patriotic Ditto — t per Cent — I Hibernian Bank . Gov. Deb. 356 percent.... SSA!Provincial Ditto — Royal Lanai Stock 40% i Rpyal Irish Mine — Grand Canal Stock — !imperial Mine — ity Deb. 4 per cent,...... Mining Co. of Ireland Balast Office Deb. 40. c. Commercial Buildings FRENCH FUNDS.—PAR►S, FEB. 4. Five per Cents., 105 f. 4Cc. 30c. 50c. Four per Cents., 91f. 90e. 92f. Three per Cents., 75t. 15c. 2Cc. National Loan, 105 f. 35c. Bank Actions, 1,720 f 1,715 f. 50c. Rente de Naples, 90f. 60c. 85c. 80e. Roman Five per Cents., 9' ii %14. Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 23 23%►g. Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 37 36% 37%. Royal Spanish Loan, 71 72 72%. RentePerpet. d'Espague, Five per Cents., 59 59 59, Belgian Loan, 1831, Five per Cent., 97%. Haytian Loan, 275 f. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. One month, paper, 25f. 25c. ; money, 25f. 25c. Three months, :paper, —f. —c. ; money, 20f. 10e. —Corers Authentique. NAILS. Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due. O America 0 0 Hamburg 0 O Brazil O Buenos Ayres 0 0 Jamaica 0 O Cart hagena 0 0 Leeward Islands ... 0 1 Dublin 0 0 Lisbon 0 1 Flanders 0 0 Malta . 1 France 0 0 Sweden 0 1 Guernsey &Jersey.. 0 2 Waterford 0 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-moa.v. Morning.. 21 minutes after 1.1 Evening... 46 minutes after 1. IMPORTANT TO FAMILIES. EVERY DESCRIPTION of BEAVER HATS, SILK HATS, BONNETS, FUR, CLOTH and LEATHER CAPS, ON SALE, at Wholesale Prices, at FRANKS and CO., Manufacturers, 140, Regent-street, and 62, Red Cioss.street, London. NOTICE. In a few days, when the arrangements for that pur pose are accomplished, The Sun will be conside rably enlarged, and printed with a new and beauti. fut type, cast expressly for this Paper by the cele brated Alex. Wilson and Sons, of Glasgow. rt tY -'7.1 *11:14* LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 6, 1834. Amos animated the t House which ALTHORP Lord .1 Who is the Traitor?" in scussion and Mr. SUEIL were the m ost p rominent exhibitors, it of ed Commons,dito on took the eace question last nigh in of For details of this extraordinary affair, which mono polized the entire night, and which ended in the taking into custody, and subsequent liberation of, Lord ALTHORP and Mr. SHELL, we refer our readers to our Parliamentary report. Meantime we may add, the affair cannot rest where it is. A grievous charge has been made against Mr. SHELL. Lord ALTHORP expresses his belief of the truth of the charge, and the Hon. and Learned Gentleman, in the face of Heaven, denounces it as a calumnious falsehood. Surely he is entitled to demand the fullest inquiry, and, as in a case of life and death (for the question is one of life and death to his political and moral character), to have the accuser placed face to face with him. No one doubts Lord ALTHORP'S integrity and honesty, but the most upright men are not infallible or less liable to be deceived than the most debased and worthless. As the Noble Lord, therefore, did not hear the assertion made by any Irish Member, but had it second-hand, Mr. SHEIL has an undoubted right to hear the evidence of the person or persons who first circulated the statement. Hearsay never is, and never ought to be, admitted as conclusive evidence. If the individual, therefore, who heard Mr. Simi. make use of such expressions is alive, we cannot conceive for a moment why he should shrink from the responsibility. The House can as easily pre vent a duel in one instance as in another ; and the apprehension of violence, therefore, may be put entirely out of the question. It has. been - repo! ted that the original communication came from a ber who is now dead ; but the determination which LORD ALTHORP refuses to give up his rity would lead to a different conclusion. If t dividual is alive, be ought to answer for hintsel Mr. SHEIL, in such a c ase, would be perfect]: titled in refusing to be tried on any other evidi Mr. O'CoNNELL's conduct in some parts transaction appears not a little extraordinary. first of all treats the charge as a wilful call and, though he has denounced duelling, 0 1 language to the Member for Hull whicl gentleman ought not to app l y to another, out, be it remembered , ascertaining WI Mr. Hill is right or wrong. He finds oul truth, which he ought to have done bef' used violent language, and then makes an apology. tearing h or any thing so much i n keeping with the P oi of Pa r is ing s t nn e t r e n n e c v h e r other's t u h c e h es womanish eyes at c c : meet, and kissing and crying and making it next ? He declares his utter abhorrence of duell seems to regret the declaration when his Ho) Learned Friend's character is so assailed, as could decide truth or falsehood. A challenl consider the very worst proof of innocence. that is not the way for Mr. SHELL tq go to Let him have fair play, and, if he can thrt credit on the evidence, he will do more to esi his character than he could by fighting .Mr, If the evidence is against him, no steps Iv take, however they might prove his courage, atone in the eyes of the public for: the wan) much higher quality,moral integrity. The news from Paris is interesting, and, ii respects, important. On Monday Marshal came down to the Chamber of Deputies,l trading all he had promised in the way of reductions, increased his demand to the amount of 371,000 men and 78,230 horses. of course excited considerable sensation Chamber, which was by no means diminisliel the Minister of Marine shortly afterwards as] an extraordinary grant of 2,800 , 000 ' francs creasing the naval force i n the Pileditei Demands like these are strangely a t variani the pacific tenor of the French King's Sp( opening the Chambers. Parisian g ossi p course instantly at work to account for the l accordingly on Monday afternoon a report Was generally circulated that a revolt had brok en Piedmont. Since then the report has b eef firmed. It seems that a well-armed corp s, tween one and two thousand men, ing of Poles, Piedmontese, and Sa' crossed the lake of Geneva, one day last.wee the neighbourhood of Lausanne, effected a at Thonon, in Savoy, and were met on the by 150 Royal carabineers, in the s ervice King of SARDINIA, who, instead o f oft joined them. A majority of the more respectable mercl Bordeaux had addressed a sensi ble memo the two Legislative Chambers, suggest ini sores by which a system of commercial re_c.), with other nations may be established. 1. morial—which has occasioned s ome talk in has been signed by the firms of about 400 co vial houses in Bordeaux. - Accounts from Spain, which come do velt 28th ult., mention that the Corte s will be co' to a certainty, and that every th in g aq' for the Constitutional cause. Brussels and Frankfort Papers have ceived, but they contain no intelligenee W' racting. .--.---....0111....-- ---- A Royal order, of which we subjoin a ton' has been published at Madrid, by which tilt de Estado, a sort of political inquisition, est' in 1823, is altogether abllished : " The motives which led to the institution of Junta of State have ceased to exist, mid the subsistent office being unnecessary since the publication of the decrees, her Majesty the Queen Rege nt bas been suppress said Junta, and has directed that all the documents existing in it be transferred to this order that, after a careful examination of the r ro e m,.. destroyed, with the exception of those that be pro per to r to her Majesty's service, and which it nl 5 l b e yout ai Tb a s yo Rt a hoey ap reference roesriddeer n.(Signed) ofi n gA future. ntt e dhteh)enop :al Iccec:ourna nm:l;ll.s:n6, t e 3O P 4 t th. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY•) CITY, TWELVE O'CL New York Papers have been received at the North American Coffee-house to the 15th January. introduced into the House of Assembly on the Bth Mr. M'Kean, approving of the removal of h e., Deposits from the Bank of the United States, &C., House of Assembly on Friday, by a vote of 118 to • Members of the House were present except Mr. F 0 DUTIES ON Corros Goons. —By Friday's proceedlo. Senate, our readers will see with pleasure that the tool 1 Treasury as to the duty on imported Cottons is to Treasury as to the duty on imported Cottons is tO ately overhauled, and it will, no doubt, be soon Put t°l a declamatory resolution of both Houses against such geous infringement of the rights of those interested n ufacture and printing of Ame rican Cotton goods. By the French mail this morning it seems a letter up atthe French Lloyd's at Paris, stating that by Madrid, one of the first ac t s of the new MinistrY and the to convoke the Cortes and to sub mit to their delibera, t from a s ind h ee several Throne recent o f Spain, atemi n st t .s to recog nition of Donna Maria, also that of B el g ium, au' pen dence of the American States, and the ex clusion Caprloosn Carlosfamily's the ancient institutions, and there.establishinent of th , in which he has been thwarted b y the vi g ilance Morino, and he is now going towards Zamor a t o m ak, has attempt, The advices from Buenos Ayres, via America, ' revolution which took place in October has been great measure; it was effected by the resignati . Governor. THE FUNDS. The general report which prevailed late yesterday that an Express had arrived from Lisbon, brine' of Coimbra by the Pedroites, is not as yet con& en , the effect of improving Portuguese Stock 1 Pe rc purchases having been made by certain parties 'Nu" nerally the first information from that quarter. Consols opened this morning at the price they left day, est I, for the Account, at which price they ' with little doing. Portuguese Stock maintains its prices, 611 2 5% 26; Dutch, 491 1. HALF-PAS T We have it again strongly reported that Coimbra , dered to the Pedroites, and the Portug uese Fund' advanced. We have endeavoured to t race the ann/' some authentic channel, and we are credibly Iflt yet nothing positive has been received, and that the speculations are in expectation of its being Consols, which were in the early part of the 7 88 % for the account, are at present 88 % Spanish stock, 26 % ; Portuguese, 61 49 % % ; Brazilian, 70 %Ai No arrivals from Portugal as yet. THREE 0' CL Consols for the account, 88 %. captured. The France Meridionale of T ot3 l , the following account of a cruel murder atile and aged inhabitant of Gaillac, i n tbe ri, ronne, n trued Coutand, having been know n . t ,. ° , lected a sum between 30,000 f. and 40,0 00 f: pose of completing the purchase of some lan d /I s traded for, some villains, imagining no doubt ] the money in his house, though, in fact , be in'!' it with his notary, entered the house in the 0' 24th ult., and in the morning M. Contend, hie ' their servant, were all found a dead, their bodies with stabs as with daggers, amounting in nuol e ', than 71. Suspicions have fallen upon a band of who have lately infested the neighbotirhood , 'ions of the feet of nine different individuals , c ei in the garden. rn a e 1 x M rni I ii ation vi itlll 1 11 0 ) t • hlfistabuattbi! ', 41,4t.hdselRnelc. 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