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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. SPAIN (FROM THE CORRESPONDENT OF THE MMINIAG HERALD.) AINHO, Aug. 24.—i have this instant received the following from Elisondo : " Elisondo, Aug. 23.--On the 19th General Iturrald , , whilst attacking a petty division of the enemy on the plains of Lodosa, was surrounded by their cavalry, and with difficulty any part of his column escaped. It was composed of the 4th battalion of Navarre and the company of infantry attached to the Junta. Our loss is betweeu 400 and 500 prisoners, and the Commandant of the cavalry. Ortigosa. Let us hope th'at we may be able soon to repair this loss." The Portuguese legion has been recalled. General Sarsfield is ill, and Cordova continues the command of the army. The Chief of the engineers stationed at Vittoria has deserted to the Carlists. Don Carlos was yesterday at Aspeitia. I write this in great haste, being desirous of confirming the defeat of Iturralde. To-morrow you shall hear further from me. BAYONNE, Aug. 24.—General Iturralde marched oat of Aroniz on the 17th, with the 4th battalion of Navarre, and some cavalry, and proceeded to Cascar, for the purpose'of pro tecting four compan►es of the Ist battalion, who bad advanced the day before to the environs of Viana. On the 18th, at two in the afternoon, lturralde halted with his division, in a ravine, situate within a league of Cascar, where he ordered his men to pile their arms, without taking the precaution of sending out advanced,y9sts. _ _ _ Thenerat Iribarren, who had left Lerin on the 17th, wits his column, composed. of 1,5 W infantry, 700 cavalry, and four pieces of artillery, marched to Carcastillo, and thence to the ravine, where he - killed 25 Carlists, wounded 60, and made between 600 and 700 prisoners..._lturralde took to flight. The colonel of the 4th battalion was woun d e d i n th e hand by a lance; 30 other officers were taken or wounded, and the remainder were fortunate enough to escape. On the 19th, lotelligenee of the rout having reached Estella, the Whole place was thrown into consternation, and the Carlist soldiers vociferated cries of death to the trait-Nr Iturralde ! The latter remained concealled at Arellano, within two leagues of that city. The Ministers Villemur and Modet, who happened to be a Estella, immediately called together a court-martial to tr] Iturralde. A bloody encounter took place on the 20th at Mallen, four leagues from Saragossa, between Don Basilio Garcia, who had with him 5,000 infantry, and 300 cavalry, and the National Guard of Saragossa. The latter are said to have been beaten with considerable loss. . . BArosrsE, AUGUST 25.—A gentleman, who by his situation is in a tray to receive important communications from Spain, has handed nie the following letter from Madrid :-- " I have obtained a piece of irrtelli,gence, of the highest im portance, and from •a quarter which ought to be well informed. ". Queen Christida has secretly addressed a letter to all the Courts of Europe, in which she protests against the violence offered her on the 13th, iu the residence of San Ildefonso, where she was obliged to yield to a military insurrection. Her Ma jesty protests against the validity of all acts that may emanate from her while in that. state of coercion, and which, she trusts, may not he considered hereafter to have impaired the preroga tives and rights of her august daughter Isabel 11. " This step, it is said, was suggested to her Majesty by t h e Marquis of Miraflores, Count d'Ofulia, and the M arquisde las A marillas." The national guard and garrison of Tudela have been under arms since the altar of Mallen, for fear Cabrera should join Garcia on that point, and direct a combined attack, agaiost the Upwards of 300 young men have abandoned Saragossa, within a few days, to enlist in the corps of Basilio Garcia.— From Corella, Cascante, and other villages, 1,500 at least have followed that example. General Garcia was, on the 24th, at Salinas de Gro, and his division occupied Vidaurre, Muniain, &c., within two leagnes of Puente la Reyna. Five other English officers have arrived in our town' this evening. I have been informed this instant that General Iturralde, who was said to have been arrested and brought off a prisoner to the head quarters of Don Carlos. had gone over to the Christinos with a few horsemen. The soldiers and people of the provinces openly charge him with hiving betrayed the brave 4th battalion of Navarre into the hand of the enemy, and loudly demand his execution as a trailer. The following matter-of-fact letter is from an eye witness, and give° a full account of the insurrection at La Granja "L t GRANJA, Aug.' 14.—" The regiment of Provincial Guards, which formed part of garrison of this place, revolted on the 12th. The soldiers left their barracks and proceeded to the palace, crying Muera Munos,' Muera San Roman.' The guaigis of the palace offered a feeble resistance, but were soon overpowered. The rioters having broke through a door with a batch entered the court-yard, crying out for the queen in terms the most disgusting, and in language of the worst description. The inmates of the palace becoming seriously alarmed, San Ro man, presented himself at one of the windows, and demanded what they wanted.—' La Reyna." La P—a,' Que salga, que salga' was the constant reply. Christina, frightened to death, consented to receive two sergeants, two corporals, and twelve privates; the men instantly ascendedinto the royal closet. There a scene took place of the most infamous description ; the brutes had the cowardice to insult grossly an unprotected female, and to load her with the vilest epithets. They then insisted on her placing, and that immediately, her signature to the constitu tion of 1812. Christina consented, and, pale as death, tears rol ling down her cheeks, she retired to her private apartments to sign her death-warrant. From this place she sent the revolu tionary act to the rioters ; but they were not satisfied, declaring it to be the writing of San Roman, and insisted on the queen signing it in their presence. Hardly able to walk, she once more entered the apartment, and, after signing, addressed the men in the following words:—' Ustades inismos son testigos de la manera in que doy esa firma.' The rioters then retired, hut continued the queen a prisoner until they had received informa tion that the constitution bad been proclaimed at Madrid." FRANCE. The Paris papers of Monday are still occupied with the mi nisterial question. Overtures had been made to several persons to compose a ministry, hut it appeared that, at the departure of these accounts, but little progress had vet been made in the completion of a cabinet. On Sunday, M. Mole, it is said, had accepted the preSidency of the council, with the department of foreign affairs, and undertaken the task of constiucting the ad ministration. Iledrad htd a long interview with M. de Monta livet on the subject; but it would appear, from an article of the Journal des Debats of Monday, that he has since declined it. N. Guizot waited on the King immediately on his arrival in Paris, hot declined entering the ministry. He said the cabi net of the 11th of October (his own) had been broken up in consequence of a misunderstanding of the Chamber of Deputies; that its system had been invariably supported by the majority; and, as a proof that it was the only one practicable, he con tended that its successors had not dared to depart materially from it, for fear of losing that support. He concluded by de claring that, having retired on account of a vote of the cham ber, he was determined not to accept office unless he were re called by the same chamber. M. Duchatel, it is said, will, in all• probability, be minister of finances, in the place of M. d'Ar gout, from whom M. Tillers received, on Saturday, a letter in viting him and his colleagues to persevere in their resolution. The King thus finds himself in a new position—abandoned by one set of ministers and unable to induce the return, of another. How much longer he will be able to govern absolutely, is a more serious question. _ _ Ds ...rztc, August 18 —lt is well known that the Russian Government has concluded a‘fontract with the cannon founders of Sweden for a certain number of cannons, to be furnished annually. Accordingly three Swedish vessels, laden with about 130 huge iron cannons, have arrived here in the course of the summer. The cannons were immediately forwarded on board of Oder barges to Poland. ST. PETERSEURGH, August 20.—0 n the 29th of July, at four in the afternoon, a dreadful storm visited the tcwn of Charcers and the environs. The wind tore up trees by the roots, and un roofed houses; the rain fell in torrents, and the sky became so dark that the largest pi int could not be read ; at the same time tremendous hail, the stones as large as hens' eggs, and even of a fist, fell, and, being driven horizontally by the south-west wind, destroyed in a moment all the panes of glass in its course. Above 5,000 panes were broken in the University alone, even the thickest Bohemian glass could not resist; and old iron roofs were pierced through and through. In all the streets there were houses without windows, and the rain poured into the rooms. A girl, ten years old, was killed in the street, and sonic persons wounded. As the storm drove the people into their houses few accidents occurred iu the town. The German Papers all agree in announcing that the Hol lando-Belgic question has been settled by the German Diet, as far as it is concerned. All rests now with the King of Holland. LONDOX POLICE REPORT. MANSIOg-HOUSE A boy, not 10 years of age, and very small for his age, was brought before Alderman Thomas Wood, charged with having picked a gentleman's pocket of a handkerchief. The bov, who',.had been observed by a tradesman in company with a b)iy of larger size, whipped be handkerchief out of the pocket with the'hand of a master and threw it to his companion, who ran off with it. The prisoner appeared to be quite uncon cerned upon being collared, and said that he did not know what picking of poCkets Was. The. Turnkey of the Compter—Please your Worship he's well known. He had a month in Bridewell the last tim e . _ _ A Constable--Please your Worship theroAs no such a thing as turning these here little tins good once they gets to drawing. I seed this boy.a little while ago, with four or five others bigger nor him, in Hobon-bridge, and when a gentleman passed they says to him "Go it, Jack," and he dra wed out the ankicher as clever as - though he was ten times as big. (A laugh.) Well, I runned after him, but he runned under the osse's belly, cause he knowed I couldn't folly ater him. These young uns knows everything; I never seed such a young tin as this here. Alderman T. Wood—Where does your father live, boy ? Prisoner—Father lives nowhere, 'cause he l 'i'4 dead. Alderman T. Wood—Where does your mother live ? Prisoner—ln Whitechapel; but I don't know the name The court. Alderman T. Wood—Has this poor child nobody to prutec him. The policeman said that it was evident he had no friend in the world, and that the bigger boys with whom he associated con stantly made a dupe of him. The Alderman told the gentleman who appeared to complain that, from motives of humanity, he would be obliged to send the unfortunate boy for trial, in the hope that some asylum would be afforded to him.' For melancholy cases of this kind it was cer tainly the duty of the government to make some provision. Prisoner—f an't c ot nobody to go to. The complainant, said that he did not know how to appear against a mere infant, and he begged to be permitted to depart without being bound over to prosecute. The Alderman—You surely would not wish to find him thiev ing again, and the only way we now have of preventing him is by committing him for trial. by prisoner was then committed for trial. WHIG LEGISLATION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES., SIR,—In reference to a letter from " A Revising Barrister," which appears in your journal of this day, I beg leave to add, that you will do still more service to the public by informing them that the act of the 6th and 7th William IV., c. 101, which has been just smuggled through the two houses of parliament, for the purpose of remedying a blundercoinuritted by the llome officein their circulars to the overseers, which circulars stated different days from those specified by the reform act (or deliver in, the notices and lists required by that act, not only postpones the' revision for a month, but has actually disfranchised every elector in the kingdom from the Ist of November to the Ist of December. One would` hardly think it possible that to rectify one blunder another to monstrous could have been committed; but such is the fact. By the 54th section of the reform act, the book, which is to bicorripteted on or before the last day of Octo ber in every year by the clerks of the peace and the returning officers from the revised lists; is declared to be the register of the electors at any . election which shall take place between the Ist of Novemher inclusive, in the year wherein the register shall .have been Made, and the lit of November in the succeeding. year. Now; there will be no hook completed this year on or be fore the last driy of October; for this precious piece of legisla tion, which has just passed, expressly declares, by the second section, that the period for copying the lists into the reßpectice books shall be extended to the last day of November in the present year ; and that "every such hook shall be the register of electors to vote at any election which shall take place between the first day of December next inclusive and the first day of November, 1837;" leaving, therefore, the whole period from th e ' let of - November to the Ist of December in the present year whollynnprovided for. " lncidit in Scyllam, tentans vitare Charvbdim," is a saying which your late correspondent, the member for Ludlow, may perhaps on the present occasion think peculiar applicable to his friend Mr. Beerbarrel, or some such name, who manufactures acts of parliament at the Home-office. I am, sir, your obedient servant, Augusi 30, 1836. ANOTHER REVISING 8.% RIIISTER. COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE. A memorial is in town from Jamaica, signed by almost every resident merchant of any note in Kingston, against the. mea sures which have been introduced into the Legislature of that colony for imposing a tax on foreign imports. This memorial is addressed to the Colonial-oftice, and has been presentA, it is understood, to Lord'Glenelg. Montreal Paper's to the 28th of July have been received here. They confietn the triumph of the Conservatives over the Radi cals in• thp Tippez—province, as .46 Conservatives had been re.. , turned against 15 Radicals. The desire of the faction to add the Caoadas to the federal Union of the United States will now be frustrated; that such was the intention Of that restless crew, we are certain of. At Quebec, several public dinners were about to be given to Sir F. B. Head. The ltioht Honourable Edward Ellice reached Montreal on the 19th 0 ? J u l y. .The Montreal Herald remarks upon Mr. Carter's arrival out very justly, in the followiag terms : " We understand that Mr. Carter, agent for the New Colo nial Bank, reached New York by the London packet of Ist Jane, and that he will soon arriv e at Montreal, and subsequently visit the other commercial stwions in British America. " We have no doubt. that Mr. Carter's arrival will be gladly hailed by the mercantile body of these provinces, as the com mencement cf . a new era, bosh in discounting promissory notes and in negotiating bills of exchange. "Mr. Carter will, most probably, attempt to form local boards of management in the principal towns; and, in doing this, he must cautiously avoid every individual, whose interest in any other bank 'might naturally and inevitably render him lukewarm in the cause." The Exchange at Montreal on London was 11 per cent. on Bunk Paper, and 10 a 2 on Private; Sovereigns were 245. 3d. to 245. 4d.; Montreal Bank Shares were 29 per cent.; the City and the Commercial 10 per cent.—Morning Herald. We have accounts from Antigua to the end of June. The whole of the Assembly of Montserrat are stated to have resigned, and the Council had resolved to pray that his Majesty would appoint a Lieutenant-Governor and Council to rule the island. By accounts from Bermuda we learn that the following taxes are to be levied in that colony until the sth of July, 1837, to cover the supply (£5,835) granted for 1836-7:-2z per cent. on sales at auction, 6s. Bd. on horses, and 6s. Bd. per wheel on wheel carriages. On importations—Whale, seal, and fish oil 6d. per gallon, rum 9d., brandy Is. 3d., gin and whisky Is. 6d., cordials 35., French wine 10 per cent. ad valorem; all other !vin es 5 per cent.; Arrow root and starch Is. Id.. per lb.; 33 1-. per cent. on hats, bonnets of straw, or chip; and £5 each o t o ,hurses. On other merchandise generally 24 per cent., ex et.t malt liquors and Indian corn. ._:We have a Hobart Town Paper of May 3, which complains ontluncurah Plevoausesdoutrages committed by the convicts, but which is a Comp on „ tio ak f £ 1 ,700 having been given to a Mr. Lewis, as proceedings or injury he had suffered by the unconstitu tionallDas of the Supreme Court.—Morning Herald. • On Friday last an alvf, ------'n".."..". di . A mats who of Providence occurred in the parish of Iver was employed as an excava tor on a portion of the line of the Great Western Railway, while swearing in the most revolti n g man ner was suddenly and he is walthough in the full instantly deprived of his speech : an d ,although ruing.-- l'irtdsor Ex possessiun of i 2 tll his other faculties, wholly, u n a b le to con, mupie - at o his .ideas otherwise than by w • vress. ,• LEICESTER CONSERVATIVE SOCIETY. On Thursday .the annual meeting of this society was held at the Three Crowns Hotel, attend e d - by most of the influential conservatives in the neighbourhood. The business of the day was conducted with a spirit which showed the prosperous state of affairs in that part of the country. Thomas Frewen Turner, Esq., late member for the southern division of the county, was unanimously elected president, and the Hon. G. Butler Dan vers, Sir John L. Kaye, Bart., George Shaw, Esq., M.D., John King, Esq., and several other highly influential supporters of the conservative cause were vice-presidents. Our limits will not allow of our giving more than a general outline of the re port, a document which, however, well deserves a perusal, being written with great spirit and ability. The committee state that a re-constitution and a renewed exertion of the association are become desirable and necessary to counteract the additional strength and,influence which the revolutionary party have been put in the way of acquiring by the recent changes in the mode of municipal election, add by the system of constant politi6al agitation and excitement to which recent events have given rise. They express their conviction—a conviction of long standing— that it is impossible but that the resources of the country would rise with its necessities, and they state that they have now the high satisfaction of saying that almost every conservative of weight in the town and neighbourhood has joined the society. A declaration of sound and genuine conservative principles in church and state then precedes the recommendation by the com mittee of the means which they think should be employed in promoting those great objects in the neighbourhood of the asso ciation. The main point, they say, is the parliamentary and municipal i'egiitration, fi - ir'while two branches of the state, and more than half the members of the other are conservatives, the ministry are now kept in power by only a very small majority of their supporters. They recommend the appointment of a committee for the express purpose of its superintendence, and further that all minor disputes of a merely local or municipal nature shall succumb' before the necessity for securing the go vernment of the parliamentary . representation. The same ma chinery will afterwards serve for municipal purposes. They propose also the constitution of ward committees for the super vision of the several districts into which the borough is divided, the chairman of each of which is to be a member of the great central committee, thus extending the power of the latter over the whole of the sphere of action. Each ward committee should be sub-divided into a district committee, each individual of which is to take a'stieet or a portion o f a street, where his local knowledge may be most nseful ; and he is to inform himself of the principles and situations of every householder and freeman in that stieet. The reports of these several ward committeemen, formed upon the reports of the district committeemen, are to be transmitted to the great central committee, thus forming a complete system of organization. The benefit of the same system they farther propose to extend to the villages and coun try districts in the neighbourhood. Strongly also do the corn mittee urge the desirableness of addressing the efforts of the committees of organization to the humbler classes of society, so as to enlist them under constitutional banners. The honest shopkeeper, the industrious artisan, and the operative, not less than the man of commercial influence and large possessions, have an;-interest in the peace and safety of the country. The one expects to enjoy his property; the other depends on the peaceful progression of trade and commerce for his daily bread ; and law_and order are the only means by which each can ac complish his several desires. The committee conclude their report by a strong appeal to the friends of the cause for pecuniary support.. These great operations cannot be carried on without extensive funds; and such an application to the good sense as well as the generous feeling of the wealthy and influential inhabitants of the borough cannot fail of success. It is needless to say that the meeting went off with eclat. THE LATE BARON SIR W. SMITH. Never has there devolved upon us a more mournful duty, or one which we approach with feelings of more acute and sincere sorrow, than that of announcing the demise of Sir William Cusack Smith, Bart., second Baron of the Court of Exchequer, which melancholy event took place on Friday, at his . seat, New town, near Tullamore, in the King's county. To describe the varied acquirements that shed lustre on the name and character of this distinguished ornament of society, now, alas, no more, would require talents equal to those of the illustrious individual whose death has left a blank in the living page of I rish history which no length of time ca❑ adequately fill u r n. Gifted by na ture with every attribute that could exalt and give dignity to the human mind, Sir William C. Smith added to the lustre of au origivalgeuius, every accomplishment which learning the most varied and profound, and talents of the highest order in the scale of intellectual endowments were capable of bringing to perfection, during a long life of deep and unremitting appli cation to the most• refined beauties of ancient • and modern literature. As a judge, Sir William Smith reached, on his first ascent to the judicial elevation, the very highest eminence for preci sion, acuteness, and constitutional as well as legal research. His decisions were distinguished by clearness, vigour, and promptitude. But if there was one feature which more than another' sttiod prominent in the judicial charactefWfbe !wilted baron,it was his humanity. From the very commence ment of his career as going judge of assize, the name of Baron Smith was identified with mercy; and, though in these latter days the malignity of faction sought to fling its shade over the bright surface of his fame, still the high anal the good, all that is honourable in name and illustrious in rank, came forward with spontaneous attestations to his merciful disposition and unshaken integrity--he was a man " In whose acclaim the loftiest voices vied, The praised, the prowl, who made his praise their pride." The late lamented judge was born on the 23d of January., 1766, and was, therefore, in the 71st year of his age. He was admitted a member of the Hon. Society of Benchers in 1802, and in a very short time afterwards elected to the rank of the Baron of the Exchequer, a station which he filled upwards of 30 years, with honour to himself and advantage to the coun try at large. He is succeeded in his title and estates by his eldest son —not the eminent King's counsel, to whom, however, has descended, in a very great d e gr e e, the inheritance of his father' s transcendent genius. A clergyman of the Church of England, who has been thirty eight years in the ministry, and whose emoluments have never reached £lOO per annum, desires to ask, thrOugh the medium of your journal, whether "board in the house" be included in the lucrative offers of £25 and £4O per annum, which are made by the Unions, in their t en d ers for chaplains of the various work houses?—Norwich Mercury. REMARKABLE CORE OF CHOLERA.—We find the following in one of the French journals:—Two labouring men employed at the salt lakes, near Salzburg, were recently attacked with the cholera, and their bodies havinc , turned quite black, they were abandoned by the medical attendant. The foreman of the labourers, however, believing there to be a medicinal virtue in the waters by the produce of which he lived, resolved to take the patients into his own hands and attempt their cure. He bad a quantity of the water heated to a high temperature, and put oue of the half-dead into a bath. Alter lying there about halt' an hour, the sick man began to speak, and said how much better he felt. Encouraged by this success, the superintendent had the second sufferer placed into a similar bath, and he received like relief. As the bodies lay in the water, they were observed gradually to change from the livid hue which they before pre sented to a deep red, then to a light rose colour, and at length assumed their natural colour. At the end of three hours the Iwo men were perfectly cured ! It is supposed that the heat of the water.opentng the pores,,the salt particles were introduced, and .liquifying' the thickened and stagnant blood, restored the vital current to its natural state of circulation. Gloucester bas been constituted; by the Lords of the Trea sury, a port for the .importation of East India traduce. Be_ twerp sixty and seventy sailor vessels arrived there during the P ast week, abort one-half of Whi c h were fr om f ore i gn ports. THE LIVERPOOL S"ANDARD. LONDON TIMES AND EVENING MAIL. THE Public is respectfully informed that THE TlMliig arrives by EXPRESS every Morning at Half-past Seven and will b e on S a l e at t h e Offi ce. N o. 48, Lord-street. THE EVENING MAIL three days per week, by po Price 7d2 Advertisements and communications for the r are re quested to be left at the Office, as above, as a arcel is for warded to the TlMJiti-OFFICE Nightly. 1,. T. GASKILL, Agent. ' ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. THE Public are respectfully inform e d that, in c o n ence of the unfavourable state of the weather last ' ening, the Exhibition of FIREWORKS and other Ent inments are Postponed till MONDAY and WEDN.ESDA EVENINGS next, the sth and 7th instant. NAPOLEON'S FLIGHT at Eight precisely. Zbe iLiberpool eStantiarb. it all events, this is a death blow to the protecting irEgis cf the Globe. We deny its admissibility at all ; but leave b the radical lovers of this complicated charter of liberty, t) reconcile the contradictory statements, and the con ficting opinions furnished on its merits by the minis terial organs, having in our Tuesday's number shown fie trite character and bearings of the revolutionary novement in Spain, both as regards its monarchy, and its consequences. We still maintain that we had noright to interfere in this national quarrel ; and if we did interfere at all, it ought to iave been in a form calculated to sustain our honour and :o attain the object. The policy can neither he defended ?n the grounds of equity—the principles of justice, nor he accustomed usages of international law, which, if lecessary, we undertake to prove, as regards the due protection of those British subjects we cannot call our toldiers. Let Lord Palmerston and his defenders look to it, we have done our duty. LATEST INLELLIGENCE FROM FRANCE.—Nothing defi nitive had been settled on Monday afternoon on the sub ject of the formation of the new Ministry. M. Mole and M. Guizot had closet audiences of the King on Sunday, but the result had not transpired. M. Guizot had arrived in Paris that mornin ,, , and M. Duchatel had been sent for to the Provinces, but his arrival could not take place till Wednesday evening, even if he consented to take office. There did not appear to be the least proba bility of the return of the Doctrinaire party to power. The public mind remained tranquil, undisturbed by the events in Spain. Since the 21st no fresh intelligence had been received from Madrid, and it appears that up to that date no further disturbance hsd taken place, not since the conflict between the provincial Regiment coming from Saint Ildefonso, and a battalion of the Royal Guard, which is said to have arisen through a mistake of the feelings of the combatants ; and which appears, after some slaughter and great alarm, to have been settled by fraternising with each other ! General Mara had not resigned the charge of the embassy, but refused his adhesion to the Constitution, and had written Calatreva to that effect. Our Westminster hero had returned to Sainte Sebastian from Santander. according to the Sentinelle des Pyreniles. From the Bayonne papers we learn the confirmation of the defeat of Iturralde, the Carlist General, with the loss of 500 men. This is the first truly serious loss sus tained by Don Carlos during three years' campaign, and appears to have arisen from want of caution—lie was, in fact, taken by surprise under piled arms. We were amongst those who predicted, at the passing of the Reform Bill, that the result of that great change would be a disappointment to the nation. We saw that, in effect, it dosed the door to the admission of legisla tive talent; that it placed a trust, requiring the nicest discrimination and the calmest judgment, in the hands of a constituency with whom discrimination and calm judg ment were not likely to be found; arki we anticipated as the result a House of Commons composed in a great de gree of men who, with talent sufficient to flatter a mob, and knavery enough to embrace for the time the griev e ance most popular with that mob, would, as statesmen giving their verdict in any matter unconnected with the particular hobby on the back of which they had ambled into public life, be utterly inefficient to record a sensible— we might almost add an honest—opinion. And how has our prediction been fulfilled ? We have now seen the close of the fourth year, during which the House of Commons has been elected under the provi sions of the Reform Bill ;- and we will boldly hazard the assertion, that never within our remembrance has that house stood so low in the public estimation as at the pre- Sent hour. Within these four years, corruption—gross and glaring corruption—has become the rule; purity of conduct, the exception. Jobs have multiplied, and the immaculate name of a reformed parliament has been deemed a sufficient apology. The creation of places for the importunate and hungry followers of the ministry has been openly sanctioned, and commissionerships of all imaginable kinds have been showered upon the attach& of whiggism from John o'Groat's to the Land's End ; whilst the House of Commons, the guardian of the na tion's purse, has itself been the willing instrument of this flagitious waste of the public resources. Within the last session we have witnessed the disgusting scene of a member of the House—the representative of a large constituency—coming forward to ask for a grant of the public money ; and, more than that, meeting with sup porters in his barefaced proposition. We have had the still mote disgusting scene of a ministry, and a majority in a reformed parliament, defending the conduct of a member who is proved to have sold his influence over a county for two thousand pounds; and the paltry plea by which such a ministry shuffles itself and its supporter out of the guilt of so glaring an offence against the consti tution, is, that be was not rogue enough to pocket the money for his private use ! We have seen, in open, vaunted defiance of all decency, such scenes enacted; and need we wonder that the affections and respect of the people are hourly withdrawn from a house which al lows itself tc be so indelibly disgraced. But a graver and more important charge bears heavily against the present House of Commons—viz., its ineffi ciency in the conducting of the public business. Day after day, week after week, are frittered away in useless debates, which lead to nothing; in speeches addressed, not to the house, but to the constituents of the speechi fiers; in motions made, not with any view to usefulness— not with any expectations of success—but merely to ful fil some election pledge, or to exalt into temporary no- ice some favourite hobby of the wiseacres who have placed their trust in the blundering speaker. The real business of the House seems everlasting prate ; and the public affairs—as if they were of infinitely less import ance—are shuffled through at a late Itour, when half the honourable members, having pumped themselves dry, have gone home to bed, and the other half are dozing oh the benches. The most important measures of the ses sion are all delayed until the last few weeks, and are debated only when members, worn out and jaded by a long broiling amongst the hot bricks and the dusty pavements of London in the dog-days, are ready to pass anything and everything presented to them, in the hope of an early dismissal to the more congenial company of ,L,tateir gamekeepers. .•• - - - At length a few slovenly, patched-up bills—dangerous not more from their principles than from their blunders— are laid upon the table of their Lordships' House, with the " noli me tangere" of Whig impertinence stamped in terrific legibility upon their smeared pages. Another half dozen pet measures—standing grievances of a minor character, without which, nevertheless, their authors could not exist an hour, are bashfully and secretly brought up, and their titles read by the Premier " sotto voce," in the fond hope that they may escape the obser vation of their Lordships, and remain alive and hearty as a small stock in trade for the usual holiday agitation. Bold and prompt, as it well becomes the Peers of England to be; gifted as most of them are with talent ; indefatigable in zeal for the good of that country in which they hold so proud and prominent a station, and in whose peace and well-being they possess so weighty an interest, the work of their session is commenced, even at this late period of the year, with cheerfulness and industry. By the power of their superior talent and more enlarged experience, the crudities of hasty legis lation are expunged, and wholesome and efficient mea sures are substituted for the vicious offspring of design ing wickedness or blundering folly. The session, how ever, is by this time at an end. Honourable members are tired, and of course feel their dignity lessened by being called upon to look upon the evidences of their own incapacity, anal submit to the corrections of more matured judgment. The Minister, in a pet, leaves half his measures to cool upon the table of the House; the Commons throw out unread their own amended bills; and after the usual speech from the throne, the members go down to exhibit to their constituents " the beggarly account of empty" talk in which they have wasted the time and patience of the nation. And of what nature are the measures which are thus introduced to place in.hostile collision the two branches of the legislature ? Are they measures to relieve the suffering agriculturis.ts of the country ? Not at all. Are they framed to promote the comforts, to elevate the minds, or to improve the conditions and prospects of any class of the community ? No, no. Such subjects are not the favourite ones of a reformed Parliament. Then what are they ? In plain and simple languago they a-re measures brought forward at the bidding, and to secure the support of a small section of the House, without whose active assistance the ministry could not withstand the weight of sound English feeling which spurns their want of principle, and laughs to scorn their incapacity. They are measures whi c h, pr o f e ; s i ng a l au d a bl e purpose, are, in reality, but a covert attack upon the religion of the realm. They are measures upon which, for once, the scorner and the Atheist, the Socinian and the Quaker, the Papist and the Nothingarian can join together in harmony, because they attack the property and attempt to break the integrity of that church, whose pure doc trines are to each a reproach and a stumbling block. With such proceedings before them, need we wonder that the British people are disgusted with the present House of Commons ? Need we wonder that its factious and insolent attempts to bully the House of Peers—so far, so very far above its infinite littleness—only served to cover their authors with contempt ? Wellington, Wharncliffe, Lyndhurst—Hume, Spring Rice, anti Lad John Russell. Oh ! bathos ! Well might the leader of the House of trammons declare that the people of Eng land were not prepared for a reform of the Lords, if he compared such men with their pigmy antagonists! and with equal truth might he assert that the same people would not endure a revolution every three years. No, my lord, the people of England, misrepresented as they feel themselves to be in your house of faction anti folly, are still sound and loyal. They look back to the past history of your house—to the proceedings of those par liaments whose dignified conduct, ardent patriotism, and profound talent, gave to the British constitution an im mortal name; and they blush as they recognise the change, so humbling to the national character, so galling to the nation's pride. No, my lord, the yeomen of Eng land—the same men who kicked your little lordship out of Devonshire—are still trusty and true; and before you can succeed, factious, reckless, desperate, as you are, in raising even amongst the two-penny clubs, your war-cry against the peers of England, those same yeomen are prepared to raise that banner, so fearful to political im postors, upon whose broad folds is inscribed the ominous word DISSOLUTION ! Some forty years ago, when the demon of unbridled de mocracy raised its arrogant head, and the poison of the revolutionary doctrines of the jacobinical clubs of France tainted our moral atmosphere with its pestiferous breath, a few loyal and independent Englishmen formed the nucleus of a society, which. they appropriately named " The Constitutional Association." The founders of this society were men of the middling classes, who had acquired some property by their industry under the blessings of that tolerant form of religious govern ment which had been secured to them by the revolu tion of 1688 ; and they numbered also a few members, who were nct opulent, but filled the honourable post of respectable tradesmen in the city of Westminster. This society did not aspire to the creation of a momen tum of power within its own hands, which should usurp the whole authority and influence in the state, or destroy the balance of the British constitution, but the members simply combined and associated for its defence, raising by small subscriptions funds to support by the diffusion of literary articles—materials illustra tiv'd of truth and rational liberty—the cause of the Throne and the Church At the first formation of this loyal society, which was principally instituted as a counterpoise to the workings of the Copenhagen Fields' mobs, radicals and free-think. ers, and even the liberal whips of the day, took grave alarm ; and an innovation on the constitution itself was declared to be its covert object. The association astounded the liberals —paralyzed the infidels, and disturbed the midnight operations of jacobin revolu tionists, and brought around it an union of talent and an array of intellect, supported by sound principles, 'which, more than any other adjunct out of doors, contributed to the salvation of that venerable superstructure, old England's constitution. This manly effort, sustained by the legitimate co-operation of a free press, raised an in. surmountable barrier against the then deeply-laid design of levelling the British monarchy with the dust. Men of England and men of Liverpool, this forms the ground-work of our appeal to you—a similar and a com mon danger now awaits both you and your constitution in church and state ! Men of England —HEREDITARY FREEMEN-" now is the time to strike the blow ! " We have given you, in epitome, the history of the old Con stitutional Association—from its . ashes, phoenix-like and beautifully imposing, has arisen the genial bud of con. servalism, and she spreads forth her palmy pinions—her widely-extended wings, and calls upon you to aid in her combat, in accents loud and deep! Will you, English men, tacitly allow the beautiful land of your fathers, con secrated by their deeds of martial prowess—of senatorial constancv—of christian martyrdom --to become the prey of wolves—the nursing mother of infidelity, anarchy, and papal superstition? Upon you, then, devolves the awful r esponsibility of respecting and preserving the best gifts of God, or of ejecting them from your bosoms!' Your civil liberties—your temporal prosperity—your eternal happiness, are involved in the struggle.— We will appeal to you in accents which will re verberate through the length and breadth of the land, and bear witness against your sense of pride and pa triotism—your respect for virtue, and your veneration for religion, should you prove deaf to that appeal ! But can such be possible ? Will you throw aside the feelings of men and the stern dnty of christian men, and refuse our call to come forth and com pete hand to hand, foot to foot, with a power, at once tyrannical in design as it is unconstitutional in prin ciple, waging war against the established religion of the land, and against the legislative union of the two kingdoms—seeking the destruction of your House of Peers, and of every principle essential to the preserva. tion of your constitutional monarchy ? You have before you the loyal—the constitutional means of meeting Your political adversaries on their own ground, and of effe.c Wally , resisting their wily designs, provided you are true to yourselves and true to your country. The course is simple, and the object one of common interest, speaking to you at your thresholds —nay, your very hearths, and involves the important question, whether you shall be triumphed over by a faction in your own freely elected assembly, or retain that proudly independent position therein, which is due to your wealth, to your industry, to your intellect, and to your numbers. The resuscitated Constitutional and Conservative associations (for they are synonimous in principle,) offer the certain means of insuring an effective registration, where every man may feel secure of his own personal interest, and his importance in the state; whilst he will acquire by union, both moral strength and political in telligence, as well as the endearing, the heart-cheering satisfaction of being actively engaged in a community of interest, an identity of object, embracing the preser• %ration of rational freedom, the security of law, and the blessings of a pure Gospel religion. These are the leading objects of our Conservative Associations, as con trasted with the mock reform views of our opponents. Let us not be charged with needless enthusiasm, we will put a plain case, and ask plain questions. What is it these political justice loving Papists demand ? Full equality in civil power and religious privileges ! Equality, with whcm ? Is it with heretics whom they despise and whom their own priests—the supreme head of their church himself pronounces accursed ? Is it to be believed that they will stop short even at a per fect equality with our Established Church could such be arranged ? What is now their conduct under their extended civil privileges ? Have they not already, by their own boast, a majority in the British House of Commons? Does not that very majority, ipso facto, paralize the regular progress both of English and Irish legislation, by the destructive innovating and unequal p r i nc ipl es propounds? Does it not rule the govern- SEPT. 2, 1836. meat, and, agaiUst all precedent insolently beard an id dependent estate of the realm, solely because that estate stands as a barrier to its revolutionary dogmas-4 15 deeply designed inequality ? Is not the equality of civil rights, already conceded to them, rendered the stepping stone—taken as the " instalment" to their positive civil ascendancy, and the absolute supremacy of their universal church ? Are their priests not bourid by their oaths to labour to this end, and are they not, as her lay members, (if they perform their duty) equally bound to assist thi s consummat i on ? In f i ne, and dispensing with Jesuitry —is it not their aim upon their own showing-- their agitation—their acts—their written and oral decla rations to level all but that universal church, which every priest swe ars so l emnly ke believes to he the mother an d head of all churches and that he is temporally, as well as spiritually responsible to the Pope of Rome for the prosuration and maintenance of that authority as far as in him lies ? And now, men of England, let us put the questin g ' before you in a more intelligible shape, if possible. Has the general conduct of the Roman Catholics of Ire land (shown by their priests in secret, and urged forward by their paid ch am pi on ,) g i ven you a satisfactory earnest of peaceful security for one single month since the pas sing either of the emancipation or the reform bill ? Has not agitation increased, and social disunion extended four fold, since the admission of the papists to a direct participation in the legislature ? Do you believe -- are you so credulous as to take for grante4l th e sincerity the Catholics proffer as the price of their admission to rule as it were the internal affairs of your Protestant establishment ? Have they ever sholitn them selves capable of acting with impartiality where their in terests were concerned ? Again—if the establishment of our venerated church can (according to the false theory of Lord Melbourne, and Lord John Russell) defend itself by its own purity, what need of the barriers erected around her by the wisdom of our ancestors ? Purity unarmed, can effect but little indeed against impurity in hostile array ; and if it be the policy of our whig ministers, und4r this fallacious argument, to neglect, or rather break down the embankments which protect it, and let it run to waste at once, and let ruin openly glut its vengeance over truth and order, then suffeAr the adoption of measures which can have no other etra than that of swamping ignominiously all we should hold dear, and add not toil to the eventual loss, by offering, at the present, the worthless opposition of a puny, and, in the eyes of our enemy, contemptible resistance. The prime minister of the state is not the physician of the conscience, nor are we compelled to swallow the nostrums offered to us by Lord John Rus sel, in consideration of his liberal " constitutional' fame—his political and ministerial uniformity, or tke :influential power of his whig and radical jugglery. e have a higher duty to perform to our country, and, above all, to our religion. Men of England—herediatry free men, we of Liverpool have shown you, that we are no t prepared to desert the 'sacred standard,—it is for you t 0 join our reunion to wield with us the-weapon of the regis tration—,with us to war with the shield of constitutional conservatism, and the armour of truth. Our readers will perceive, from an advertisement in another column, that the foundation-stone of the new Church of Eng" land School, in Bond-street, will be laid on Monday next, O f our excellent Senior Rector, whose manly defence of scriptur al education in conjunction with other clergymen, will long b e remembered. The children of the various schools connected with the establishment are to join the procession on the occasion' r and to witness the founding of that edifice which, we trust, real - be useful to unborn thousands. We hope that a great number of the merchants and trade s " men, as well as the operatives, will join the clergy on this in; teresting occasion, involvin g as it d oes, t h e great pr i nc i p le Protestantism against the spread of Papery at the present time' The Corporation Schools are now little more than nurseries for Popery, mere miniutere Maynooths, where popish catechism s and popish doctrines are lisrilled by popish priests into th e rising generation; and where five-sixths of the children are regularly taken to hent and see the mummeries practised at Ol e Mass-hous e in Scotland-road. We earnestly invite those who are sceptical to visit th e school in Limekiln-lane, and they will see with their own eye , and bear with their own ears, that Popery is now publicly twig" in England at the public expense. Dissenters make a great outcry against supporting an Estab" lished Church, which is founded upon scripture, whose articles, homilies, and doctrines are consonant with the word of eternal truth ; but we scarcely hear one whisper against the false liber ality of the present day, which ought to snake the blood boa with indignation, that Protestantism should be sunk to such e low ebb, as to tolerate the spread of Popery with public money' Upon the doors of many of our bookseller's shops, may be seen swinging in the wind, notices of a work entitled "Defenc , e , of the system of Education adopted i n th e C orporat i on S c h oo ls. We are thankful that the author of that injudicious work is not a member of the Church of England. Well did Mr Dixon say at the Amphitheatre, that the Church of England was the groat breakwater against the swelling tide of Popery. Hundreds 0( conscientious Dissenters will repudiate the notion that they ar e friendly to Popery, but, as a body, Dissenters are aiding its propagation. Dissenters can never be said to act consistent l y with their avowed !principles, until they unanimously prote 4 against the government grant to Maynooth College, and th e appropriation o f any part of our local revenues to th e service o f s education on Popish principles, under the exclusive superie" tendence of Popish pi iests, because they now make no distine tion between truth and falsehood, but with characteristic Is berality advocate and support the one as well as the other- Much has been attempted to be said against our Clergy for their determined and successful stand against 4 this false prin ciple, but we are mistaken if those Dissenters, who have intro duced this system, are not the first to bewail its effects. The duty of every member of the Church, and of those wh e conscientiously differ from•her on non-essential points of doe" trine, is t o s t an d a l oo f f rom t h e p l ague spot, to uphold the gra °(. principl es o f P rotestant i sm, w h ich alone breathe the spir i t °', true liberty, and to promote the spread of education, based ° l l Scripture alone. W e t rus t th a t a ll t h ose w h o ha e t h e real welfare of the rising generation at heart, will look well to the secret workings of Popery at th e p resen t d ay : t h at t h e y sc' tll join heart and hand with our excellent Clergy in the establish' ment and support of the intended schools, and show to the hike" warm and the mistaken, that there is a latent spirit of Pre testantism, which only requires to be aroused to vindicate th e . cause truth, combined, as it ever mus t h e , aga i nst t h e u nited forces of scepticism and false doctrines. laauEaT.—On Tuesday afte rnoon l as t an i nquest was he l d a t the office of P. F. Currie, E sq ., coroner, touching the death ?, Mary Ann Parso nage , a f ema l e servant of Dr. (Thorlton, I L ; Rodney .street, who has been missing some time, and who Wa found drowned the afternoon b e f ore . M art h a W hee l e r, a rl , other servant in the employment o f D r . Ch or l ton, depose d that on Friday morning week the decea s ed wen t out, an d said !°s, was going for some clothes; sh e a pp eare d i n very low s pirt! She never afterwards returned. Ann Parsonage identified tn t ; body as that of her sister. J ames Cl are, a fl atman, deposed a finding the body floating opposite the POtteries; he tied a roll, to it, and brou g ht it d own t o S eacom b e-s li p, w h ere h e d e liver it to a police-office r , and it was b y hi m carr i e d to the aeZ house. The jury retorted a verdict of " Found drowne a e We have heard the d ecease d was pregnant, an d t h at t h ere we r e marks of violence upon the body; no surgeon, however, g ay evidence of this. Mr. Lacey, of Bold-street, has just completed and publishs his VIEW OF LIVERPOOL IN A STORM, from a picture by IVlr' Walters, which attracted so much notice in last year . s Liverroa Exhibition. It is a faithful and s pi r i te d representation,._°.,t, will, we have no doubt, be largely p urc h ase d, b ot h b y resi ders to and visitors. We particularly recomm en d t h e engra ving captains and others visiting Americ a an d ot h er f ore i gn par". THE ZOOLOGICAL GA RDENS.—The evenings which hav e bec d fixed upon for the entertainments at th ese gar d ens, have Pt°if e it most unfortunate. Last evening, after two postponemen t , s ,:ht was announced that Napoleon w ou ld certa i nly wing his $ to the clouds, " weather permitting," and in conse quenc e er , great number of spectators att en d e d . T he weather, h°wected did not "permit," and the public were again disappoin,is,. Mr. Atkins, with the lib era li ty which has always hithernir. tinguished him, annou nce d to those assembled, through., re . Yates, that they were at lib erty e i ther to have !'heir morl e j ee k, turned, or a ticket for the entertainment in the followinf wad when it was hoped the evenings appointed (Monday and nesday) would prove inure auspicious. ° 5 LYNCIIING A J UDGE. — During the July Term o f - h 1, Circuit Court, at Carlisle, William Boyd was tried to rn r an.. murder of Mr. Smith. The Jary found him ittnitY °f ar th° slaughter, and awarded as his punishment confinement t Penitentiary for three years and two months. Motion sag made for a new trial, upon the grounds that the werqi °t y. against law and evidence, and the discovery of new te s i toa he This, Judge B rown granted on Saitirday last, a nd admit' t o g s prisoner to bail. The populace were so enraged at tfr t h a t for his outrage of all law and justice, as they esteetneu e l d o or, they tilled the fire-engine, placed it at the after Court-hon-! t he and gave him. a handsOme ducking as he passed out _ n ot Court adjourned. They likewise hung and burnt him "r o wed morning in effigy. When the Judge left Carlisle, they . l atta d c the black flag and tolled the bell. We do not justify this ' which upon the person of Judge Brown but if the stateme n ts ha ve we have heard, in relation to the trial, &c., be true, an d rt r soni e no right to doubt it, they most unquestionably furnis h tbe. We give the n pe , udg.e palliation for the treatment which the judge received a f hands of the people of Nicholas. Nicholas great credit, however, for this moilificatio more sever )nark of as likely to produce the end designed as the It to rein' Lynch's code. It evinces much humanity, and its tent: o 7;4 l w that es lions t o h t e "Lynch commonwealth'slaw' .arte-ir arm with tile . judge, was also sprinkled with naus is but he consoled himself by facetiously remarking tbf o i c iso law," attorneys who nearly wfoaragot walkingtea water ; fortane resulted alone from keeping-had company. Paper, July 15. THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. CLARKE, ACTING MANAGER, On , which occasion Mr. COOPER, of the Theatre-Royal,. Drury-lane, who is engaged for a Fortnight, will make his • first appearance this season, and will perform is 'lrina! character of Bouchard, in the new Tragedy of th Provost of Bruges," performed last season at the T acre-Royal, Drury-lace, with the greatest success. Last Week of Mr. MAC KAY, of the Theatr oyal, Edinburgh. First Night of a new Burlesque Drama, eiug a Travestie of ROMEO AND JULIET, Written expressly for this occasion by the Author of the suc cessful Drama of "Othello Travestie." tIN MONDAY EVENING nex t, th e sth S e pt em b er , wi ll . kfi he produced, fur the first time here, a new Tragedy, as per formed with the greatest success last season at the Theatre-, Royal, Drury-lane, called THE PROVOST OF BRUGES. Bouchard....(Son-in-law of Bertulphe)....Mr. Cooper, (As origmallv performed by him in London.) Charles, Earl of Flanders, Mr. Chaplin; Bertulphe (Provost of the Chapter of Bruges) Mr. Stuart; Thanemar (Chatelain of Bourbourg) Mr. W. Howard; Gantier, Mr. W. H. Bland; Hackel, Mr. T. Ridgway ; Albert, Mr. J. Ridgway; St. Prieux, Mr. G. Horncastle •' Hebert, Mr. Webster ; Charente (Secre tary to Bertulphe) Mr. Bellair; Phillippe, Mr. Baker; Antoine (a Citizen) Mr. Granby; Denis (a Serf) Mr. Jonas ; Seneschal, Mr. Andrews; Gonzalo, Mr. Cunningham; First Citizen, Mr. Benwell; Second Citizen, Mr. Slaiter ; Third Citizen, Mr. Hughes; Fourth Citizen; Mr. England. Constance (Daughter of Bertulphe) Miss Faucit; Ursula, Mrs. E. Benwell; Attend ants, Mesdames Webster, Granby, Miss R. Stanley, Miss Webster, and Miss S. Chaplin. End of the Play a variety of Singing. Previous to the Farce a new OVERTURE, compos e d express ly for this night by Signor De Val, will be performed byitthe Orchestra under the direction of Mr. Aldridge. After which a Farce, not acted here for seven years, called. THE SCAPE GOAT. Ignatius Polyglot (first time here). ...Mr. Mackay. Molly M eggs M rs. Clarke. Dancing, by Messrs. Ridgway and Madlle. Marie. To conclude with, for the fist time here, a Burlesque Trage4, called ROMEO AND JULIET, Written for this occasion by a Gentleman of Liverpool, the Author of " OthelloTravestie." Master Romeo, Mr. Baker; Mr. Mercutio, Mr. Browne; Montague, Mr. Webster; M r. Capulet, Mr. Granby; Mr. Paris, Mr. J. Ridgway; Mr. Benvolio, Mr. H. Horn castle; Mr. Tibalt, Mr. Jonas; Mr. Take'in (the Beadle) Mr. Benwell; Mr. Pestle (the Apothecary) Mr. T. Ridgway; M r . Couple'm (the Gretpa Green Blacksmith) Mr. G.. Horncastle. Miss Juliet, Miss Stanley; Mrs. Capulet, Mrs. E. Benwell; The Nurse, Miss R. Stanley • . _ _ Incidental to the Piece, a Variety of SONGS, DUETS, 8:c., ; t0 well known popular Airs by the characters. Tickets to be bad of Mr. CLARICE, No. 1, Houghton-street, and of Mr. PARKER, at the Box-office, of whom Places maybe taken from Ten until Three. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The communications of " Omega" and "X" in our next. We shall give insertion to the remarks of "A Liberal Dissenter" on Mr. Blackburn's pamphlet in our next. We must beg our correspondents to bear in mind that it is tar More convenient to us to receive their maEuscripts written, i on one side of the paper only. The practice of writing closely i on both sides entails upon us a great deal of unnecessary troul4e. Owing to our not having yet received several of the periodiCals we are obliged to defer our usual literary notices until our next publication. FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 2, 1836. Our foreign intelligence, furnished by the. French papers, is conclusive as to the Tiers-etat ministry. That cabinet, from its first formation, had been rife in petty intrigue; from the very first, its policy with regard to Spain exhibited one continued round of Charlaianerie, under the management of its chief and the crafty policy of Louis Phillipe. As it lived without at any time pos sessing the confidence of the French . people or of the European cabinets, (always, of course, saving and ex cepting that of our Palmerstonian "porte feuille,") and always the object of the bitter jealousy and rancorous secret hostility of another rival party, so it died with out honour and without any expression of regret." Our own truly intelligent and keen-sighted ministers have before them another splendid opportunity for dis, playing, turdisturbed by parliamentary, intrusion, to great personal advantage and the certain increase of diplomatic reputation, before the English people especial ly, the superior claims of that versatile talent—that tact for accommodation which has been the distinguishing feature of their expedient policy, domestic and foreign. Our " jeune secretaire" and his playful associates Messrs. Lambkin and Co.) eminently possess the re- cherche quality of being adepts in making the worse ap. pear the better reason. For a long time, having closely watched his political course, we thought that this great gift of human ingenuity belonged exclusively to our noble and learned friend ex-Chancellor Brougham ; but it seems we were mistaken, and that these reckless whip, in their fondness for the principle of " appropriation," have had the assurance to appropriate even this last remaining and gaudy feather to themselves ! As bladders swim upon the surface whilst things of weight and substance fall to the bottom, so, in the esti mation of the feeble parasites who support by their dig mal drudgery the sayings and doings of the all-sapient renegade whip, the bubbles are blown onward with the fan of dissimulation, and even their vaporous work is un blushingly lauded forth to the public. Such garbage certainly suits the taste of the admiring crowd of greedy, hungry, open-mouthed liberals, whose powers of reflec- tion, or even of comprehension, do not enable them to distinguish between cause and effect, or between shadow anti substance, in domestic legislation, nor to understand the value of honest independence, in connexion with our foreign interests, as a great commercial nation. We ought to contrast the latter with that mountebanking and time•serving finesse which has stamped the govern. ment of the present ministry before the powers of Europe —a system of policy which has at once disparaged our honour and sullied the bard-earned reputation of our chivalric character, maintained before the world in arms, and which has deeply injured our colonial interests. We have been honoured with the plaisanterie basse of the whole pack of ministerial jackals, who, in the exercise of their predatory avocation, or rather their necromantic genius, found what proved to be a "a mare's nest" in our shrubbery. We thank them for their assiduity and for the publicity they have given to the woeful discovery, theiliad has proved a good advertisement or our .psisai- , pies, and we earnestly hope it will serve the cause with which we are in heart and soul identified, under the exposition given of their folly, their weakness, and their malignity. Giving them the full benefit of this hint en passant and all the advantages of their boufoonerie malicieuse before the intelligent world, we return to our immediate objects—the policy of our whig sympa thizing cabinet, and the position of our foreign friends. 'The denouement of the Spanish tragedy is already be fore our eyes. To the concoction of the dark plot the Foreign Secretary has unwillingly and fatally (we will not say designedly) lent a powerful hand by his pre sumptuous interference with that of which it is perfectly clear he was entirely ignorant. True it is we are at present deprived of the benefit of his lordship's lucid ex positions and explanations on this most thrilling subject, the events connected with which may yet, and that ere long, shake the repose of Europe to its :ery centre. But we can form our own opinion, and no thanks to him, on the consequences and on the aspect of things from our own means and sources of information; we can also form our indications from the great skill, the judgment, and the permissive development of this malady by the official organs of our noble Foreign Secretary and his colleagues, —even the mighty Globe itself will astound us with the powers of its logic, and by " le pempli le vent" as its war note, in keeping with the grand principle of its employ ers, making wrong to be right. Thus, we are informed by the Globe, that the procla mation and adoption by the Spaniards of the constitution of 1812 is the result of a well. grounded and almost uni versal feeling of discontent ; but then it is neither insur rectionary nor revolutionary! Was there ever argu ment so preposterous ? , This very paper with the same breath tells us, that this warmly-desired constitution for Spain is not suited for it without great modification, and by no means likely in its present form to be permanent. terd Ass, ia 8 th e Was &c. Brat the othe (Ap