The Sun. — London, England, 1834-08-27 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS. (From the Papers of Monday.) The following telegraphic despatch was received by the Government last evening from Bayonne :—" On the 21st inst. Zumalacarreguy marched 'to Thiebas, on his way to Aviz, pursued by General Lorenzo. On the same day General Rodil moved upon San Estevan, where Don Carlos had his quarters." The Sentinelle des Pyrenees of Bayonne of the 21st inst. has the following :—" On the day before yesterday, in pursuance of instructions from the Government to the Sub-Prefect, the ex-Consul of Portugal, M. Da Cruz, who has resided here for several years, was ordered to quit France in 24 hours. He, however, has obtained till to morrow to make the necessary preparations forhis departure." The Indicateur of Bordeaux of the 21st inst. has the following from St. Jean-de-Luz of the 19th :—" The mail from Irun arrived here earlier than usual. It had among its dispatches two packets brought by the inland courier ; the latter, who travelled under escort, was stopped between Tolosa and Hernani, but the escort having made effectual resistance, the Carlists were put to flight ; 14 of them were taken prisoners and sent to St. Sebastian. One of the armed trincadores arrived last night at the port of Socoa, after having during four or five days cruised off the coast as far as Bilboa. In its passage it had met no vessel which could be an object of suspicion. All the frontier communes are placarded with regulations of the higher authorities, which forbid, under penalties, the export or vending of provisions, cattle, horses, arms, or ammunition in Spain. It is painful to hear that men, influenced by cupidity and thirst of gold, should ostensibly employ themselves in this illicit traffic. It would be a fortunate occurrence if some person could be caught in the fact, in order that he might receive the chastisement his conduct would deserve. This would serve as an example, and would put an end to a spe cies of commerce which prolongs the war. Such enter prises cannot fail to be condemned by every thinking person. The Pretender was yesterday at Lanz. It appears that the result of operations in Navarre is not such as he lidd been led to anticipate. In a wretched country, which has long since been a prey to every sort of public calamity, he will find few materials for the trial he had hoped for. It is expected that he will be compelled to quit his ad herents, and take refuge in the neighbouring states. Zumalacarreguy was yesterday still at Lecumberri. Notwithstanding different military operations effected on the part of Rodil in order to bring him into action, that rebellious chief has always avoided and refused battle. Mat ters cannot long remain in this state, for the country is so exhausted of provisions, that in one way or other the ad verse parties must quit the present theatre of war." The Memorial des Pyrenees of Pau announces, that the army of General Rodil has received a reinforcement of 3,000 men from the interior of Spain. The Sentinelle des Pyrenees of Bayonne of the 21st in stant has the following :—" On the day before yesterday, in pursuance of instructions from the Government to the Sub-Prefect, the ex-Consul of Portugal, M. Da Cruz, who has resided here for several years, was ordered to quit France in twenty-four hours. He, however, has obtained till to-morrow to make the necessary preparations for his departure." The Indicateur of Bordeaux of the 23d instant, received by express, contains the following of the 21st from Bayonne : —" It appears that three battalions of Navarre have en tered Castile, and have made 200 prisoners at Aro. The captives were Urbans and Peceteros. This intelligence, however needs confirmation. We have it in our power to affirm that General Mina has said repeatedly, that if any foreign army should interfere in Spain, he would be the first to put himself at the head of the brave Spaniards in order to repel it, and that all Spain would become Carlist if the Queen's Government should adopt such a step. We are at a loss to conceive how the police, which appears so scrupulously to search every thing sent to the Carlists, does not perceive what is mani fest to all the world besides, that every day horses pass through the city, cross the frontier, and join the Carlist cavalry. Forty passed the day before yesterday, and for these two months past four have passed regularly every evening." The same journal has the following from Al dudes of the 17th :—" Strict measures are taken, which will at least make the passage of arms and ammunition difficult for the insurgents, if they do not entirely prevent it, which is almost impossible. It is reported that a warm action took place in Las Amescuas at the return of Zuma lacarreguy with General Anteo and another column of the Queen's troops." A letter from Pampeluna, dated the 16th, says ;—" All is tranquil in this neighbourhood ; an excellent spirit exists in the town. It is the same in Ron cal, where 600 volunteers have armed in favour of the Queen, who are protected by the column of the Brigadier Linares. New corps are coming from the interior to re inforce the army of General Rodil, and everything leads us to hope that the war will be at an end earlier than was imagined. M. Maurice, Procureur du Roi at Bayonne, has addressed instructions to the mayors of that arrondisse ment for the seizure of all provisions, ammunition, and horses, which may be found attempting to pass the frontier. Powder and arms especially are to be sent into Bayonne. Any depot of ammunition in a commune is to be seized, and all French persons who may be found passing into Na varre with the intention of joining Don Carlos are to be arrested, disarmed, and taken before him." The Swabian Mercury has the following from Cassel, of the 16th inst.: " What proves that the Minister is desirous of avoiding the enforcement of his threatened appeal to the Germanic Diet is, that at the last sitting Colonel Schmidt, the Government commissary, proposed to arrange the dif ference, by accepting a diminution of 35,000 dollars instead of 61,000, demanded by the States on the military esti mates, and has offered to repair immediately to the War Minister, to give him notice of this proposition. Even this concession, however, is not deemed sufficient to the ma jority of the Assembly, so that the original resolution is to be persisted in. Although the Prince Regent is absent, the garrison is making great preparation to celebrate his birth day on the 20th." The Augsburg Gazette of the 21st instant has the fol lowing of the 15th from Vienna :—" The post from Con stantinople has brought us the following intelligence : Three ships of the line are being fitted out at the arsenal of Constantinople, which are thought to have some import ant destination. Marshal Marmont has been to inspect them, and speaks in high terms of the progress which the Turkish navy seems to be making. This officer has been presented to the Sultan, on which occasion he received very valuable presents from his Highness. Some of the most distinguished mercantile houses are on the eve of suspend ing their payments, in consequence of the last caravan from Persia, which was richly laden for those houses, having been plundered of the greater part of its merchandise and cash. The affair produces a powerful sensation here, and will lead to a most disastrous commercial crisis, unless timely assistance be afforded. For this purpose it is sup posed the Porte will be applied to for a legalized delay to effect their payments." The Gazette quotes the Funds at Vienna on the 16th-5 per Cent. Metalliques, 98i 99i t ; 4 per Cent. ditto, 89 5-16 ; Bank Actions, 1,489. The Berlin States Gazette of the 18th inst. quotes the Prussian funds, 4 per Cents., cash 99, paper 99i. The official Gazette of Baden of the 17th inst, contains an ordinance of the Grand Duke, by which censorships are established in every place of the Grand Duchy where jour nals arc published. The accounts of affairs in Syria, as our readers must have observed, are extremely contradictory, and those given by the German papers appear evidently exaggerated. We have two versions this morning, from which it would seem that peace is restored. The Courtier de Lyons has a letter of tile 4th ult. from Alexandria, of which the following is an extract :—" We have news from Syria, announcing that the rebels of Nablous and Jerusalem have submitted to Ibrahim Pasha, and all is over. Mehemet Ali had not arrived at Jaffa, but was ere long expected there." The other account, as follows, is from the Lucca Gazette : Authentic letters from Alexandria inform us, that on June 26, Mehemet Ali definitively concluded peace with Syria, granting a general pardon." Extract of a letter from Naples, dated the 7th instant : " On their return from Palermo, the King and Queen were accompanied by the Princes Carlos and Leopold, Viceroy of Sicily, and the Prince and Princess de Salerno. The Prince de Campo Franco has been appointed Lieu tenant of Prince Leopold during his absence. It has been rumoured here, but without the slightest foundation, that there have been riotous proceedings at Palermo on account of the introduction into Sicily of the conscription. The regulations as to the duties on salt and tobacco have met with great opposition, even in the Cabinet, but it is said that the energetic remonstrances of the Councillor of State, Mostraopolo, a Sicilian by birth, and formerly member of the Sicilian Parliament, have induced the Marquis Pietra B a b e lla, President of the Council of State, to abandon his projects, which have excited so much discontent in Sicily. As soon as the King arrived he went to pay a visit to the King of Wurtemberg at Castellamare, who returned it the following morning. The King of Wurtemberg will remain at Castellamare till the 10th instant, when he will come to Naples for eight or ten days, and afterwards return to Stuttgard. The reports of an intention to raise a consi derable number of recruits in the kingdom of Naples are totally unfounded. The Royal steam-boat ' the Neptune has arrived here from Gravesend, but as she touches at Gibraltar in her way, she is obliged to go and perform qua rantine. The file of Madonna di Pie di Grotto, which takes 'place on September the Bth, will be this year cele -baited with unusual pomp. The new corps of cavalry, called the Guardia d'Ordre, will appear for the first time in gala, with some° companies of the elite of the Guardia Civica. Vesirqus has ceased its eruptions, but our natu ralists predict their return with great violence in the course of ,Septemben r A. lqtter,'Of the 18th inst. from Zurich, gives the follow- PRICES OF STOCKS THI! Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 'WA% 3 ni pe pe r Cent Cent. . Cons. .89% 9 Vili r Ditto Red. ' 4 8% % 3 / 4 r Assented 101% l p e r Cnt. New 3% per Cent. 9S %% /Dissented 99 Annuities to expire Bank Long e Jan. 3, 1860 17 5-16 7 16 Oct. 10, 1859 l7 5-16 Jan. 5, 1860 l6 15-16 17 Jan. 5, 1880 - April 5, 1880 - Jan. 5, 1870 - PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds 10154 Belgian Bonds 9B Ditto Account Brazilian ponds 7S Ditto Account 77% Buenos Ayres Bonds 2S% Ditto Account 2 8% Chillian Bonds 3l Ditto Account 3l Columbian Bonds 2514 Ditto Account 25% Columbian Bonds, 1821 2OM Ditto Account V.3% Danish Bonds Ditto Account Greek Bonds Ditto Bonds, 1525 31% Ditto Account — Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent 29.: Ditto Account 20% Ditto, 6 per cent...„.„ 4O Ditto Account 4O Neapolitan 9454 COURSE OF EXCH. Amsterdam C.F. 12 6 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam ........... U l2 6 Antwerp l2 4% Hamburg M.D. 13 13 Altona l3 13 Paris, 3 days' sight 25 45 Ditto Bordeaux 25 t3O Berlin_ Frankfort on Maine, Ex. M. 151% Petersburgh, ruble 3 Us. 10 Vienna, effective fl 2M. 10 1 Trieste ditto lO 2 Madrid 3f1% Cadiz !ilboa Barcelona Seville ltitC Gibraltar 47' PRICES OF IRISH STO 3 per Cent. Consols ........ OO% Ditto Reduced -- 3}6 per Cent. Stock 9B Ditto New, 1830 3 per Cent. Debentures 9os i. Bank Stock 2 0 4 Royal Canal Stock Grand Canal Stock 21% ing account of the proceedings of the Swiss Diet on that day :—" The Chancellor read a petition, dated Paris, July 6, from a great number of Swiss in that capital, the chief of whom are from the Vaud and Neufchatel, demanding, first, the dismissal of the Swiss diplomatic agent at Brus sels, M. Grelet, who has not been at his post for more than twelve months ; secondly, of M. D'Effinguer, the agent at Vienna, as no longer representing the political system of Switzerland since its regeneration ; and, thirdly, of M. Marcani, the Consul-General at Milan, as no longrer paying any attention to the business of that office. The Deputy from Bern, John Schnell, was charged by that canton to in sist upon the discharge of M. D'Effinguer from Vienna. The greater part of the deputies, however, considered that mere allegations were insufficient to warrant such dismissals and required proo!'s of incapacity or unworthiness ; at the samo time the Directory, who ought to be better informed, recommended the re-appointment of these agents for the next year. The Diet then proceeded to the ballot, and Messrs. D'Effinguer, Grelet, and Marcani, were re-elected by a large majority." Extract of a letter of the 19th instant, from Geneva : " A few days ago, an event took place which is almost un exampled in any country where laws exist, and there are tribunals to enforce them. An individual of this city, who was supposed to be opulent, had just caused a house to be built at the entrance of the road to Lausanne. It was about to be occupied by tenants, when it was ascertained that the proprietor was in a state of bankruptcy. No sooner was the fact known than a multitude of workmen and others, who had taken a part in the construction, and had not re ceived payment, flocked to the building and took possession of it, and removed their respective portions furnished by them to the edifice. Some removed doors and windows, and others the blinds ; the iron-work, the leaden gutters, marble chimney-pieces, pier-glasses—all disappeared, and the pillage was in a great measure completed before the lo cal authorities arrived at the spot." BOURSE, MONDAY, AUG. 25.—The Three per Cent. French have improved, they rose gradually, and are at pre sent 75f. 15c. The Spanish Securities are rather flat ; Five per Cent. at 36 ; Three per Cent., 25. A letter from Elisondo, dated the 19th, which I have seen, says that Don Carlos is in Castile with 12 battalions, and that he has established a junta there. FRENCH FUNDS.—Panta, Atm. 25 Five per Cents., 106 f. 105 f. 95c. 106 f. Four per Cents., 93f. —c. Three per Cents., 74f. 95c. 90c. 75f. sc. Bank Actions, 1,770 f. —c. Rente de Naples, 92f. 40c. 60c. 70c. Roman live per Cents., 94N %N. Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 32 33. Bente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 27 25% 2634. Royal Spanish Loan, 37 36% Rente Perpet:d'Espagne. Five per Cents., 3534%, 36. Belgian Loan, Five per Cents., 99. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. One month, paper, 25f. 2754 c.; money, 25f 27 1 ,4 c. Three months, paper, 25f. 15c. ; money, 25f. .sc. —Cours Authentique. DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. New 5 per Cent. India Stock _ _ 258 Ditto Bonds l.pm South Sea Stock 162% Old Annuities — New Ditto BBN 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1151— Exch. Bills, £l,OOO. ..... ... 40 al pm, Ditto 500 4O 38 pm. Ditto Small 4l 38 pm. Ditto Commercial pm. Ditto Advertised pm Bank Stock for Account India Stock for Account .. Consols for Account l'Oyi 90 IA THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Peruvian Bonds 26 5% --" Ditto Account :254 Portuguese Bonds 63% Ditto Account 8 % Ditto New Bonds 81 445 i Ditto Account 8144 2 Prussian Bonds lOl% Ditto Bonds, 18:2 lOl Russian Bonds, 18 - :.2 JON Ditto Account 106% Ditto Metalilc lO2 Spanish Bonds 44% 5%1 Ditto Account 45U %% Ditto Bonds, 1833 43% Ditto Accohnt 43% French, 5 per cent. f. —c. 4 per cent. f. —c ----- 3 per cent. —f. —c. --.-- Exchange —f. —c. Dutch, 2% per cent. Ditto Account 5 l -4 Ditto, 5 per cent 'l3 % Ditto Account EtB% PRICES OF SHARES 'PHI, S DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share Alten Mining Company £9 11% Anglo Mexican Mining Company (iss. at 5/. pm.) 100 7 1 ,4 Ditto Subscription Rolanos Mining Company 1:i0 90 Brazilian Imperial Mining Co. (issued at 51. pm.) 2.1 28 Ditto Macaubas Cocaes 2O 21 Ditto Scrip lO 13 Ditto St. John del Rey lO 46 Cata Branca Mining Company British Iron Company 5O 20 BEitish Copper Comp iny Columbian Mining Company (issued at 54 pm.) 5351 11 1 ,6 English Mining Company l2},i 5214 Hibernian Mining Company lO 3% Mexican Mining Company 4914 Real del Monte Mining Co., Registered 63/. les. 6d, Ditto Unregistered United Mexican (issued at 2/. pm.) Ditto Subscription Ditto New Scrip . London and Birmingham Railway Company l5 London and Greenwich Railway Company 7 Australasia Bank Australian Company 2014 Canada Company lB General Steam Navigation Company l3 London and Westminster Bank 5 National Provincial Bank of England Provincial Bank of Ireland Rio Doce Company Van Dieman's Land Agricultural 324 5 4X i N 6 4 7 14% 47;i 16% 124 42 1 / 2 2!;;; )mpany lO .NGE, YESTERDAY. Leghorn lB4 Genoa 25 75 Milan 3l Venice 17N! Naples ‘l o .q Palermo per oz. 121 Lisbon t'S Oporto Rio Janeiro ll Rai is ... 31 Buenos Ayres Dublin, 21 days' sight Cork IZ PRICE OF BULLION, PER OZ. Portugal Gold, coin £0 0 0 Foreign Gold, in bars 3 17 9 New Doubloons New Dollars Silvers bars, standard 0 5 Osi ICKS, DUBLIN, AUG. 23. Grand Canal Deb. 6 per cent 91% Ditto, 4 per cent Hibernian Bank City of Dublin Steam Co IOU National Insurance Company - City Debentures, 4 per cent BO Ballast Office Debentures, 4 per cent. g3; DI AILS. Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due. 0 America 0 I France 0 0 Lisbon 0 0 Brazil 0 0 Guern.StJersey 0 0 Malta 0 0 Buenos Ayres... 0 0 Hamburg 0 0 Mexico ...... ..... 0 0 Carthagena 0 0 Holland 0 0 Ostend 0 I :)üblin 0 0 Jamaica 0 0 Sweden 0 nanders ... ..... 0 0 Leeward Islands 0 I Waterford 0 HIGH W ATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Mon,inn• 4I minutes after 7. Evening 15 minutes after 8 THE SUN IS NOW THE LARGEST DAILY PAPER IN LONDON. 4 ,_ t k• - A ~.. tp.-1 4 ,:, : - xv...--;,k-cf kt ,IL N , f A r iowifrs, 0- t 4 : I ,(:.,,, '. -___ ll, / - • , 4, - , - -, .•:$v rf 170 ,- Ziht LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 27, 1834. Journals and letters from Madrid, bearing date from the 13th to the 17th inst., both included, have been just received by express. The intelligence they bring is important to Spain ; but with the exception of some remarks on Count TORENO'S plan for the liqui dation of the public debt, and the sensation created in the Chambers by the Minister of the Interior's refusal to produce certain documents declaratory of the real state of the country, they contain nothing of ally mo ment to the inhabitants of foreign states. The de bate which arose in the Chamber of Deputies, dur ing the sitting of the 14th instant, in consequence of Count DE LAS NA vAs putting a question to the Minister of the Interior respecting tile real state of Spain, must satisfy the intelligent portion of the British public that Spain enjoys but the shadow of liberty, and that what Ministers have called a clamour for a constitution, was a demand for the recognition of rights . which only exist in appearance in that country. The Chamber of Deputies was surprised to learn that it was called upon to legislate in utter ignorance of the condition of those upon whom the laws were designed to operate. After the opening of the sitting, Count DE LAS NAVAS rose, and observed, that seeing the Minister of the Interior in his place in the Chamber, he requested to be informed respect• ing the truth of certain rumours of conspiracies being discovered, and what steps the Government had taken for their suppression. In a British House of Commons this would .have been considered a fair and proper question, and would have elicited a direct an- TAIL' SIC INT L ",, ,, irtem7,„7 -17.7-17 T: 4 l 7r,,, 4xr .11.5 kfi LA, 1.4 ~. ~_~ ►~mb~ , AUGUST 27 183 i. sorer. But in Spain it sounded differently. The Minister of the Spanish Interior peremptorily refused to answer such a question ; and after being pressed hard by Senor LOPEZ, gave utterance to the following curious expose of a liberal administration's definition of the rights of the Chamber of Deputies, and the extent to which it would permit their exercise : " The MINISTER Of the INTERIOR.—The Government will not render an account upon the simple demand of a deputy ; it will answer frankly whenever the ideas are fixed by means of a petition addressed to her Majesty in all the forms settled by the regulations. In no other way will the Government satisfy the curiosity of the deputies, however laudable that curiosity may be. In . no part of the regulations is the duty imposed upon Ministers of answering always, and whenever it suits a deputy to make inquiry upon any matters concerning their re spective departments. This satisfaction is due only to the Queen-Regent, in whom resides solely the faculty of governing and executing whatever concerns the salvation of the country. But as to the Chamber, whose powers are purely legislative, that satisfaction can only be given when a petition is regu larly signed." We cannot repress a laugh when we recollect that this declaration—more suited to the meridian of Bar bary than a country which boasts of having freed her self from the fetters of feudal despotism—was made by the colleague of a Minister who treated with a con temptuous sneer the demand for a charter similar to the Magna Charta and Bill of Rights, which constitute the great bulwark of British liberty. The Spanish Deputies were merely legislators, and legislation re quired no knowledge of thi state of Spain, save what her Most Catholic Majesty, the QUEEN-REGENT, might be pleased to impart, on the humble supplica tiom of the Chamber I To her Majesty alone he de clared due the unlimited right of eating of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. The Deputies were not called together to ask impertinent and troublesome questions ; their duty was to learn her Majesty's pleasure, and hasten to execute it. The zeal of the Minister was not the result of a mere love of order, but arose from an admiration of the system which he defended. In answer to an observa tion on the wisdom and prudence of making such changes in the forms of legislative inquiries as would give to the Deputies of Spain a fair proportion of the freedom conceded to such bodies in other countries, the Minister of the Interior further said— " I will never consent that new resolutions shall be esta blished, whereby a Minister is to be called upon to answer the mere queries of the Deputies. I will do so when they (the Deputies) shall conform themselves to the forms of the regula tions, and even then it will be the Chamber, and not its indi vidual members, which it will be in question to satisfy. When this case shall arise its alarms shall be tranquillized. If the Honourable Deputy should make a proposition, the Govern ment will examine whether it be made in the prescribed forms, and, if so, it will hasten to accede to the wishes of the Chamber ; but the moment that it swerves one line—one iota— from the said forms, the Ministry will not consider itself bound to make any answer." We admit that occurrences may sometimes take place, which would render it prudent for a Govern ment to withhold for a time the particulars of some passing danger i ,the more especially when undue publi city would defeat the ends of justice, or endanger the safety of the State, by betraying her councils to hos tile states ; but we can fancy nothing so insultingly despotic as the concluding remarks in the above ex tract from the Minister's speech. That a Govern ment should be so tenacious of forms, as to an nounce a determination to sacrifice to them both the public interest, and the right of complying with the most popular branch of the legislature, is little short of the announcement of a Ministerial design to crush the rising freedom of Spain, the moment the Ministry are delivered from the presence of the common enemy Don CARLOS. The more attention we give to the recent move ments in the Madrid Cabinet, the more convinced we are that the liberties of Spain can never be secured but by a charter. The Ministry are doubtless actuated by the best motives, and have, as we observed yesterday, difficulties of no ordinary magnitude to contend with ; but notwithstanding all this, they are 'clearly behind the age in which we live. We know enough of human nature to be aware of the extreme caution with which all changes, even for the best, should be made ; we know that liberly first introduced among a previously enslaved people, is very apt to degenerate into licen tiousness, and that the population of Spain are in general very ignorant and grossly s uperstitious. But because we cannot have things perfect, shall we neglect having them as good as the nature of things will admit ? Are men to be chained be cause they might abuse their liberty by com mitting suicide ? Let the people of Spain have a charter embodying the greatest degree of freedom that can be safely extended to them at present, which' may receive improvement as they become fitted for it under a liberal Government, by the acquirement of sound moral and political knowledge. Great discontent prevails in Madrid respecting To- RENO'S scheme for the management of the debt ; and many members of the. Finance Committee are more than ever opposed to it in consequence of the delay which continues to take place in laying before the Committee the necessary documents, without which nothing can be done respecting it. Two new members were added to the Committee on the 14th, but we have not learned what were their opinions on the subject. The general impression is, that ToRENO'S plan, if carried into effect would amount to a declaration of national bankruptcy, and that the holders of Cortes Bonds would be the severest sufferers. This is denounced as the grolisest injustice, inasmuch as the only parties who ought to suffer under such a calamity would be the holders of the Perpetuelles, or Stock created by the late King without the consent of the Cortes, and for the avowed purpose of crushing the liberties of Spain. The Perpetuelles were also issued at ex traordinary discount, so that the purchasers were no strangers to the hazard of speculating in them. We trust, however, that Spain will not ruin her self by an act of injustice to any party. Low as are her finances at the present moment, she pos sesses abundant means of satisfying all her creditors, by having recourse to the ecclesiastical property merged in the possession of monkish fraternities. There is no direct news from Madrid respecting the present state of the disturbed provinces ; neither is there any account that can be depended upon relative to the movements of B:ODIL and the rebels, save what is given in the French papers. We have not learned whether there is any trvlth in the report of an insurrection breaking out in the al my of the traitor CARL os, and that ZUMALACARR EGUY ordered eighteen of the ringleaders to be shot, but there is more than a pro bability of its being corn express, the w h o l e o f t h e We have received, by Paris papers of Mon day and yesterday, with private communications of tb ,e same date. They all speak of the affairs of Spain as the only important topic now on the tapis in Pari s. We learn from them that the Spanish Cabinet becoming every day more unpo. pular—that Don CARLOS holds out hopes to his fol lowers, from the length of time he, has escapedimmo tested, and that ZUMALACARREGUY contemplates the capture of Madrid, towards which place the rebels are now flying, pursued by RODIL and the royal army. The Journal de Paris published on Sunday night the following official bulletin : " Don Carlos, escorted by two battalions and two companies of guides, slept on the 20th inst. at Leyza, and was, no doubt, at San Estevan on the following day. Zumalacarreguy was, on the 20th, in the valley of Ulzama, marching on Estella. Rodil and Jaureguy (El Pastor) were, on the 21st, at Tolose with 10,000 men." This was followed on Monday by the publication of the following telegraphic despatch, in the Moniteur, received by the French authorities on the previou evening : " Bayonne, Aug. 23. " On the 21st, Zumalacarreguy passed through Thiebas, directing his course towards Aoiz, and pursued by Lorenzu. " On the same clay Rodil was advancing on San E , tevan, where Don Carlos had arrived." This includes the whole of the information contained in these papers, except a rumour that Spain is to re ceive aid from Portugal instead of from France, and that the Portuguese troops are on their way to the dis turbed districts in the vicinity of Pampeluna. The German Papers contain no intelligence of the slightest public interest. If there is any one thing more than another in Par liament which the people are entitled to have set right, it is the proceedings upon Private Bills, because their interests are thereby directly affected. Nevertheless, a Committee, which was appointed last Session, " to investigate the nature and amount of fees, charges, and expenses, attendant upon the progress and passing of Private Bills" in reporting ten resolutions, embrac ing every other matter into which it inquired, is alto gether silent upon the most important of all, namely, the expense attending the bad constitution of the Com mittees to whom Private Bills are referred, though three witnesses, examined before this Committee, dis tinctly and strongly point out the evils in this and other respects, attendant upon them. Even in relation to the mere matter of expense, the consequences were so stated by the first of these witnesses, as to seem to make it impossible for the Committee (as a matter they were bound to inquire into) to avoid taking notice of these consequences; for this witness says, " the irregularity and increased expense of counsel and agents (he should have added, of witnesses,) is raised to a point which no person can conceive pos sible unless they were conversant with the subject." And the last of these witnesses says, " I cannot figure to myself a more objectionable tribunal than a Committee upon a Private Bill. The result depends solely on the canvass of the Members ; and as to merits, they weigh very little upon a division ; and the evidence given openly is far out-balanced by private whispering among the Members, who too often appear to me to care little about the business before them, and, provided they please the party who may have canvassed them, either for carrying or rejecting the Bill, without regard to its merits or demerits, they feel satisfied." And with regard to expense, he adds— " The expense complained of would greatly diminish if any thing approaching to confidence in the tribunal was established." It does not require a ghost to tell us that where 120 or 130 Members are liable to be canvassed before a Committee is appointed, and during the whole of its sittings—where the Committee is constantly fluctuat ing in its numbers, some Members attending only a ' part of a day, and some attending one day and not another, and some never appearing at all, until the Committee. is to come to a division, and where all are entitled to put questions, and to have a voice in every part of the proceeding, and in every resolution of the Committee, we say, it does not require a ghost to tell us that the irregularity, interruption, repetition, and dissatisfaction with the length and expense of the proceeding, imperio - usly demand a remedy. Neverthe less, thirty Members who were upon this Committee are altogether silent upon this subject, notwithstanding the very prominent and pointed manner in which it was brought under their notice. Can the canvass be justified ? Can the irregularity of the attendance of Members be justified ? Can the iiregular and disor derly course followed in these Committees be justi• / fled ? Above all, can any excuse be made for a Member who gives a vote, and this too depending upon evidence, of which he never heard one tittle, and to which, according to the witness above cited, even when present, he appears to pay little attention.? If the resolutions reported by this Committee had not taught us otherwise, we should have conceived it alto gether impossible for any thirty gentlemen, or so many of them as attended this Committee, to have heard such evidence, and not have expressed their reproba tion of the canvass, and all the other mal-practices attending the present constitution of Committees. There may be a difficulty how a good constitution can be given to Committees, but there can be neither doubt nor difficulty in saying that such mal-practices as were proved before this Committee should cease to exist, and they must cease, and means must be devised for this purpose. The unsatisfactory result attending the labours of this Committee, leads to another consideration. It was a Committee of inquiry. It was composed of thirty members, and few committees of inquiry are composed of less. Is so numerous a Committee cal culated to promote the due prosecution of any inquiry ?, Is the mode of their proceeding at all calculated to arrive at a knowledge of the whole circumstances of the case ? Let the present Committee serve as an in stance. Were the facts attending the bad constitu tion of Committees, even as a matter of expense, brought out by the questions put ? Let the questions as put afFord the answer. The first witness is asked, ct What in your opinion Occasions the greatest unne cessary expense attending the progress of private bills ?" It was in answer to this question that this witness among other things, spoke the words which we have cited. He was the fourteenth witness examined. His examination took place on the sth of May, and the Committee first met on the 17th of March. They had had six previous sittings, and had examined thirteen witnesses before _the facts were brought out which are adverted to by this witness ; in truth the most important of all which occurred in the course of their inquiry. But this Committee had eight sittings afterwards, in the course of which they examined twelve more witnesses. The facts disclosed by the first witness in regard to the bad constitution of Com mittees, even as a matter of expense, it was natural to think would have induced the.n to put questions which might have tended to shake or confirm his testimony. But no, there was not a question of this kind put. The question which brought out the opinion of the second witness was one explanatory of a former one. He was desired " to state wherein the difficulties ex isted which he had encountered," to which he an swered, " The chief - difficulty arises in the formation of, and proceedings. in, Committees on private bills." Then the question is put " Do you mean the Com mittee after the second reading,. or on the petition ?" To which question he answers, " I mean the Com mittee upon the Bill," his opinion in regard to which he states. And the evidence of the last•witness which we have cited was given in answer to a question ex planatory of his opinion of a scale of fees, so that, but for accident, the most important f ac ts whit appeared in the course of this inquiry would not have appeared at all, and even when they were stated by one witness, they were not prosecuted by the Committee I We here pause for the present. Our readers will find among our advertisements a well-drawn up Letter addressed to the Churchwardens and Overseers charged with the relief of the Poor, by Mr. CHADWICK, Secretary to the Commis sion. We would advise our cotemporary the Times —and we can assure him we do so, from the best of motives, a tender concern for his .health —not to peruse this document, for it will assur edly have the effect of throwing him into fits. Any thing, whether immediately or remotely connected with the Poor Law Commission, now afflicts our cotemporary to such a degree ; so deranges that enviable pla cidity of temper, that sound judgment, and lofty disinterestedness, which, in common with delighted Europe, we have so often dwelt on with admiration in his columns, that we live in daily apprehension of hear ing that a strait-waistcoat has been introduced, among other curiosities, into the sanctum sanctorum of Printing-house Square. We say this, not in a spirit of thoughtless levity, but—as Mr. O'CONNELL would observe—of " sober sadness." God knows ! we are in no humour to joke on so melancholy a theme—the more especially, as we perceive in the Times of this morning the most alarming and unequivocal symptoms of what mad-doctors call " incipient insanity." Let our readers only peruse our cotemporary's parallel between Mr. CHADWICK and HOMER-a Phoenix and Lord BROUGHAM..-Mr. NictioL s and CATO-Mr. F. LEWIS and the Rule of Three—and then ask themselves, whether they can hesitate an instant as to the sanity of the wits that produced it ! Many an Inquisition de Lunatic° In quirendo has been summoned to decide on a case far less questionable than this. It is really a most heart rending affair. We direct attention to the report of some inquests recently held in the King's Bench prison, which will be found in another column. We regret, with " Veritas," the delay in bringing forward the Bill for abolishing imprisonment for debt except in cases of fraud; but the delay is not alto gether attributable to Government. Circumstances intervened since the Bill was first announced which put it entirely out of their power to carry a measure of such paramount importance during the last Ses sion ; but we have no doubt whatever that the At torney-General will introduce a Bill next Session to relieve the debtor, while it protects the creditor (the chief difficulty), and such as will be consonant to the present enlightened views of society. After reading the details in the report alluded to, one cannot forbear asking what advantage does the creditor derive from the working of the present demo ralising system ? Does he get payment of his debt ? no ; for imprisonment makes the poor yet poorer by depriving him of all opportunity of exertion. Does it put a stop to improvidence ? no ; for the temptation of credit is too strong for the distant terrors of a gaol, as is daily and hourly evinced by the multitudes that become its victims. What then is the advantage of this boasted credit which is to be upheld by madness, misery, and death. Why, it holds out a premium to extravagance, and enables the shopkeeper to tempt that money from men's thoughtlessness, which he would seldom gain were payment to follow immediately upon the purchase ? , And ale we not to look a little to the other side ? Is all our compassion to be reserved for the creditor ? He who buys does so on his own responsibi lity, nor,however bad the article may prove,has he any re medy but never to return to the same vendor. The law ex pects, and with reason, that every man should use his own judgment in his traffic. It refuses all protection to ignorance or carelessness ; but if the one party is to buy upon his own responsibility, it is only fair that the other should sell upon the same footing. There is no more difficulty to the merchant in ascertaining the soundness of his customer, than there is to him who buys in discovering the soundness of his purchase. Surely it is an infamous law that punishes a debtor more severely than a felon. The thief, when he has undergone his allotted punishment, is a free man ; and if he suffers in his person, his property, at least, is exempt. Not so the poor wretch who has bought and cannot pay. First of all, he is imprisoned for two mouths—then he is robbed of all his property above twenty pounds--and, finally, when he is released, the hand of the law is still upon him ; he is still a debtor : the slave, if he works at all—must toil for his task-master ; but this he will not do. He who has been torn from his family to rot for months in a gaol, and is then turned out upon the world with no property, save the clothes upon his back, is apt to believe that he has paid his debts in full. Shylock has had his pound of flesh, and has no claim upon the ducats too. And is not the debtor right ? But, right or wrong, such will be the result—the creditor has gained nothing—the debtor has lost all, and society, in too many cases, has ex changed an useful citizen for a pauper or a vagrant. NAVAL PROMOTIONS. Commanders J. J. Onslow and Andrew Forbes, to be Post captains. Lieutenant S. P. Pritchard, to be Commander. The Hon. Edward Plunkett, and Mr. P. P. Inskip, to be Lieutenants. Lieutenant Horatio James is appointed to the command of the Tartarus steam-vessel. One of the most remarkable replies we remember to have heard, is attributed to Mr. Oulton, the Barrister. Some one used the hackneyed sarcasm, that between the Churches of England and Rome there is but a paper wall. " True," said he, " but the whole Bible is printed on it."— Warder. DROMEDARY IN HARNESS.—Major Davidson, of the Engineers, Lucknow, in India, has trained a drome dary to draw a buggy in the most tractable manner, to the great amusement of the ladies and gentlemen of that place. The animal was a little nervous at starting, when, on turning round his long neck, he for the first time perceived the wheels running after him; but in a few minutes he became indifferent to them, and quickened or retarded his pace as the driver required. The Pope has just promulgated throughout his states regulations concerning public executioners, their assis tants, and their wives. They prescribe the cut of their clothes, the hours at which they are allowed to appear in public, and the places and churches they are permitted to frequent. Among other characteristic marks of this fraternity they are required to carry a black stick, wherewith to point out the objects they are desirous of purchasing.—French Paper. MANSION-HOUSE.-(THIS DAY.) s hoe A dirty-looking young lad, who called himself Ja p es Morris, was charged by Mr. Nicolson, proprietor Of 3 L., warehouse in Cateaton-street, with being one of a partq whom he had been tricked out of goods to the amount of 2 9 ', f The complainant stated that a man who represented hiniseia ao, the father of the prisoner, called upon him for goods, 2 , 1 4 . referred him to a Mr. Rogers, a grocer living Catherine's docks, who assured the complainant that N i fer t r he was a very respectable man, and he consequently gave tIY goods upon his bill at two months. Morris subsequen offered complainant a 301. bill, the first having been dishonoui:ea but complainant detained the second bill, and Morris had since absconded, and the only - person he found in the boost was the prisoner. The LORD MAYOR—Where is Rogers ? Complainant--- Oh, my Lord, he has bolted also. The LORD MAYOR said he should be very anxious to exteedit every protection to tradesmen, but if they chose to giv° e f r the to strangers without inquiring their character, or that (r e, #, opposite bis, persons to whom they refer, on the chance of obtaining la r b profits, they must abide by the consequences: table Complainant—My Lord, I thought Rogers was a r cs P ec man, for he had a very well filled shop. obta in The Loab MAYOR—SO he might, when he could - credit readily. The so following letter from Morris to the complainant seas then read : Castle -street, 1 9, Cast, l e-s j 5 " Dear Sir,--Having mislaid the key of my iron ch, e ,: l l, I the reason as that Bill is not paid. If you return the I' shall get the money immediately. Yours truly, RIS." " THOMAS MOR— aria The LORD MAYOR asked the prisoner if his father had found the key of his iron chest yet ? in b ig The prisoner explained that he had an impediment big speech, and wrote on a piece of paper that he knew o°' of the matter. f 1 h ".,4 1 1111. The LORD MAYOR said he could give the comp a' , with redress, and directed the prisoner to be discharged, ll' undertaking to appear when called upon. e' The accused immediately recovered his speech, n', claimed—" Certainly, my Lord—thank your Lordship' (Great laughter.) f 31r. Joseph Aslyrorcl, a young lad in the employmen t 0 0 114, Williams, a shopkeeper of Fenchurch-street, was ou, his master with robbing him of two pieces of Banonw, - ; other goods, to a large amount. Some of the proPely beet' been found in his bed, but the greater portion ha ", e of pawned, and he was remanded to Tuesday for the purr — having the pawn-broker in attendance. 6 04 Elliott, the young man who had been two or three, 6 of before the Mayor on a charge of obtaining large quentiti wine from various wine -merchants, under false preteenq t l e oce again placed at the bar, but there was no further 01 against hi DOm. . ALPHUS contended for the prisoner, that he l! e „ bad invoices of the several merchants from whom the W n ' o aici been purchased; which set forth that the money was to hefirod in October, and they had no right to bring a charge d o ree against Mr. Elliott in August in defiance of their own an ment. foroer The LORD MAYOR said, that in the present as in case, it was unfortunate that inquiry had not been 018 fade' the character of the person to whom reference had b eel i l for Under all the circumstances he did not think hire se ' ranted in detaining the accused, and he should.ther efere charge him. t t) j'; A police officer in attendance said he had Elliott i n eu ,i s a e o ' l to answer a charge of a similar nature on the other the water. Y The LORD MAYOR—I have nothing to do with that" of coarse, will do your duty. eb Robert Fenton, a waterman, was charged by a with having, a few nights previously, demanded five 9 e fare for conveying himself and two other persons from th b) tom-house to the Eclipse steamer, a distance of less tba a mile, which the lainant ai him. The Waterman, in com h p is defenc p e, d said that some o ther P er° must have taken his boat, as he was not the person. no tec t Mr. Webb said, if the number of the boat did net, protect 1 4 the public from imposition , he would be glad to know li ° ,oo were to act in case the night was dark and that the Wa's" O ff could not be identified ? ror d e, The Loan MAYOR said he was most anxious to aff ° he y P,, , protection to the watermen, more especially since by been deprived of a great portion of their earning? o 015 steam-boats; but they were most effectually destroY ii i s sboli3 O selves by their gross extortions upon the public. [l or e I ' l fine him 205. • and in every future case that came "es. of a similar kind, he should inflict the full penalty fi ne , After a good deal of grumbling, Fenton paid Jane Harmer, an old woman, whose appearance b e o f )3 ; the;o7 the greatest destitution, was charged by Mr. Ca:Y: 4 f 10 c° ,, shopsgate-street, with having stolen three pound's c i from his shop ; the complainant pursued her, a n he r g' " saved his bacon," he merely boxed her ears and let ,01 16 The old lady returned shortly afterwards with a l ar g e and smashed his window. The Loan MAYOR inquired if any of the officers kn o e t li V ej and one of them replied that she was a poor woman W on drink. Mr. Hobler—But she eats sometimes—she took ha e°ll ll l. Officer—Bless you, no, Sir ; she only took it to sel i c i r ol/ old women never eats at all, they live upon the , (Laughter. )—She was sent to Bridewell for 14 claY s 'Acer s : Hannah Allen, a middle-aged, decent lo o king h oes stil l - was charged with being found in the street o n the P i evening, intolerably drunk. her s l l Mrs. Allen, on being asked what she had to say fo r 01 0 ? assured his Lordship that she reared herself and her quite respectable, but she was subject to a s winnxiir i g head, and a little drop went a great way with her. She was discharged on promising not to offend agal BOW STREET.—(THIS DAY-) 1 ) 111 OS. 0 Fanny Pennefather, a young Irishwoman, In° st a te 4 dressed, was charged with being drunk in the street tob,?e( o'clock this morning, creating a riot, and afterward' P. saulting the policeman, who interfered to prevent 11 eIy, e ; she was brought in the gaoler said she was exceecun'llAv lent, and used very violent language in the static:ll-Ai she claimed acquaintance with inspector Rogers, was indebted to her in the stint of 2/. 125., of which sl ri f immediate payment. very a She, in answer to the Magistrate, said she wa s . " for what she had done, and if allowed to go ab° l llll 1 4 ness, she would never trouble him again. The Magistrates, Messrs. MINSHULL and MA 1 • 1 '.,, - e ir the officers must be protected in the discharge of She must pay a fine of 205., or be imprisoned the Correction for three weeks. 0 01 , She was then locked up, but had not been man,' ~ fl d e d the cell till she fainted, or f e i gne d one . She co cry cry and groan for a time so loud as t o i n terrupt t t h i of the office. After about an hou r , 1I the fine was Pa d ' 1 l departed in high spirits. 'Valiant Johnson, the driver of the hackney con e 41 1 was summoned by police sergeant A 14, for furious7 e9 o f on the public streets, to the great danger of the Majesty's subjects. 1 t Mr. Alexander Dyson said on the night of the 0 5 0 lit was crossing St. Martin's-lane, when a coach c ame out oy full gallop ; he was obliged to run very fast to get way. He was looking after it, when the police °ln c ' s sci t :il? him and desired his name and that he would attend as i sa V The officer gave the same account ; he distinct J ot oy number at a gas lamp ; he could not speak to the Pe, 0e t° driver, for the coach went past so fast he had not him. cit Pc The defendant said he had no rec o ll ec tion 0 1. 7 ; e 1'0: 0 0 stance. He had driven a coa c h as mas ter an 14 seventeen years, and never was b e f ore a Magis tra te ee summons before. f t il The Magistrates greatly commended the conduc t 'iceman, and fined the defendant 20s. and costs. his mh;,f He said he could not pay the money and begg e ,` A `,. would do so for hi m f or a s h ort t i me , when he wrotntv e o ll " he refused at first but eventually paid the money °n ttt that such conduct s h ou ld no t again be pursued. hef ore t f , A poor woman named Catherine Brennan cam e fe; Magistrate under the ivllowing circumstanceVrbe r yecl a certificate from the country stating t' a t - fe tu 1, 4 had been transported ; she had come up . 7 D ot to London to inquire about hi m , as she r lee of him for a long time. Sh e h a d , also got a l e i te t '" to him, but the Post-office authorities woul d , l ° o .:0 1 it without the postage b e i ng pa id. She had 1 t ` ): and wished the Magistrat e t o i nter f ere an d comp P, tof forward dit 4; ere r. gave the poor w o ma n great ri,ve 1t ll' 0 1 maternal feeling, a n d sa id t h oug h h e cou ld not CO 'soa send the lett er , lie would pay the postage hims elf ' 0 0 would be sure to o. ; irig g The poor wom g an left the office invokingh'e-s head. ,o A huge portion of an immense cliff at wll, ~o) Shannon mouth, has detached itself from the e 'f i la s ,) fallen into the sea. The boisterous weather ° made extensive inroads along the western 5 14 Paper. ell s/ 0fi ,1,1 During the last few days an evident cha n g p g %/ e ., place in the warmth of the atmosphere, border' in I.oooolp oj tumnal coolness ; the thermometer, which eve n be e ° 1 latelY remained at 70, having on some evenings . Pyo • as 50. as '4, A GOOD GUESS.---Colonel C---, `olio o and cars in debt, when stationed at the Towen W3f0,l servant that a person wanted to see him on P— reiy e' f Requiring a defcription of the announced, the cele° man of colour."—" Oh, say no more," sai d the 0, 0 t know what colour—it is a dun." ribo rs FISHING EXTRAORDINARY. --- ' 193 d 0114 sword-fish, eight feet six inches in length , ' t ri 13ofto is i four feet in circumference, was caught in Wh' rt nobictskov'b ii s rd i; near the mid• stream of the Humber, by Thomas Hind Bell, in Messrs. Todd and the sl o g boat Venus. It is a remarkably fine fish -- fe et 1° ,10 4 , three v , 5 . (which projects from the upper lip) is expanse of the tail is tw o f ee t eight inches. a _ fise at,, o I iics r effected at some ri s k ; a ft er the first hook iv 5 it rushed with such violence against the bon o t b liy b 1 set it ; the tip of the sword was broken, P r hat the to b cussion. It was by considerable exertion t; chas° oft I which was used by Gibson and Bell in givlhnf object „if!? prize, was prevented from sinkieg, wh en t After 1 1(9 pursuit descended with surprising v at:witty. ow erfo r p cured, Bell received a severe blow from its P qafl ifo It is now lying in Messrs. T. and A.'s shop. ---P not th e , artf Oa( hill G(l., JUr kor, .I °f th • tb lr6 4