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London, England, 1839-09-09 00:00:00

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LONDON :
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1839.

TERMINATION OF THE WAR IN

SPAIN.

The Moniteur Parisien of Saturday night, re-
ceived by extraordinary express, has the following
highly important telegraphic despatch : •

" THE GENERAL COMMANDING TIIE 20TH MILITARY
DIVISION TO THE MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

" Don Carlos has dismissed the whole of his Court and
his Ministers. He has returned to Lecumbery.
" MM. Da !a Piscina, Erro, &c., have taken refrge in
Franco.

" The Navarrese battalions commit every species of ex-
cess. General Moreno s shot yesterday at Urciax."

The civil war is at last at an end We expect to
learn by the next despatch, that Don CARLOS
has taken shelter in France. Of all the Carlist Ge-
nerals CABRERA only keeps the field, but his re-
cent discomfitures by General O'DoN NELL prove
that he is no longer so formidable as he was
twelve months ago. The following telegraphic de-
spatch, published in the Moniteur of Saturday
mot ning prepared us for the surrender of DON
CARLOS, seeing that he made no attempt to de-
fend Tolosa

" BAYONNE, SEPT 6

" Maroto has retired to Bilboa. Espartcro has arrived
at Tolosa. The provincial battalions are cEssolvcd, and
the men dismissed to their homes. Those of Castile go
to Logrono. Don Carlos was on the 4th at Lanz, pro
tested still by Elio with the Navarrese."

Lanz is not distant more than a couple of leagues
from the French frontier, and as Don CARLOS had
not the least confidence in. the fidelity of his at-
tendants, it cannot be doubted that he fled there in
order to escape safely to France. The Pretender
displayed throughout this affair so deplorable a
want of moral and physical courage as to fill the
officers about his person with the greatest contempt
for him. He seemed half dead with terror, and
fancied that all who approached him designed to
betray him into the hands of ESPARTERO. Ge-
neral MAROTO, before retiring to Bilboa, where he
will probably take shelter on hoard a British ship
of war, addressed a proclamation to his late com-
panions in arms, in which he says that :
" Convinced by experience that Don CARLOS
could never confer happiness on my country, and
united in sentiment with the military chiefs of Biscay
(SIMON LA TORRE), Guipuzcoa (ITURRIAGA),
and Castile (URRisToNno), and some others, I
wished to give the country peace !—that peace so
desired by all." iVIARoTo adds, " that the reso-
lution to sacrifice him had been taken ; men are
not made of bronze, and they cannot, like chame-
leons, feed on worms. The country was exhausted,
and the army was in misery." MAROTO termi-
nates his proclamation thus :—" Provincials, let
the sentiments of peace and union be eternal in our
hearts, and let us for ever banish resentment. This
advice is giren you by your comrade and general."
This news has, of course, created a great sensa-
tion in Paris. The Carlist organs are in despair.
The personal worthlessness and cowardice of Don
CARLOS have lost him the few chivalrous friends
he had in the French capital. No Frenchman can
commiserate the downfall of a coward. It is said
that Don CARLOS has written an autograph letter
to LOUIS PHILIPPE, offering to refer the claims
of his family to the decision of an European Con-
gress. Such a proposal, if really made, is not only
inadmissible, but preposterous. The Governments
of France, England, and Spain are only entitled to
determine his future fate, and that of his children.

There is at present a singularity in our political
press which is worthy of notice. When the Whigs
were in opposition, the mass of the Liberal journals
were constant and earnest in exposing abuses. Now
those journals are only intent on defending the
Ministers, shielding them, if possible, from the at-
tacks of the Tories, and they give political abuses a
holiday. If the Tory journals had taken up the
cause which the Liberal journals have cast away, as
it is of no consequence to the public by what party
an abuse is exposed and put down, if it be done,
the alteration in the press would be a matter of
indifference. But the Tories are the persons who
chiefly profit by the abuses which ruin the State,
and not one of their journals betrays the smallest
inclination to promote political improvement. They
are one and all engaged in a hot personal warfare
against the Ministers, which attracts the Liberal
journals to encounter them in the same field, and
the consequence is, that at present political abuses
are almost unassailed. If the mere accession of
the Whigs to office had put an end to abuses, in-
stead of engendering some peculiar ones and aug-
menting others, and if it were not in the nature of
things that abuses continually arise, and are con-
tinually strengthened, continually needing the
watchful eye and the pruning hand of the press,
such a peculiarity in the present direction of the
press would not be worth notice; but
as there are heaps of abuses to be re-
formed which continually augment, the
present condition of the press will turn out we are
afraid to be a great public misfortune. Abuses
which should be gradually destroyed, will accumu-
late till nothing less than a convulsion will sweep
them away.
The short time that the professors of Reform
principles have been in office, during which there
has arisen this truce to the war against abuses,
seems to imply that very little will ever be effected
by merely altering the technical direction in which
arrogant and usurping power carries its wishes into
effect. Since the Whigs have become settled in
office they have done very little for the people. It
is of not much consequence therefore, which section
of the aristocracy has possession of the Govern-
ment. If the power of which the people feel the
weight be driven from boroughs and courts, it cor-
rupts cities and takes up with Commissioners. If
it be forced to evacuate the corners of Cathedrals,
and to share some of its exclusive privi:eges with
Dissenters, it builds and consecrates new temples in
which to dwell. The war against abuses should
therefore be directed against the source of them.
The influence of the priesthood must be attacked ;
the power of the aristocracy, titled and monied,
landed and manufacturing, should be assailed ; for
while these great and united bodies possess their
present power to corrupt and enslave the bulk of
the people, in what mode they exercise it will be
of comparatively trifling importance. To convince
the public that the priesthood are unworthy of con-
fidence, that their cnly real object is to obtain and pre-
serve wealth for themselves—with which it is pos-
sible the public welfare may co-exist, but of that they
make no account—should, now be a leading object of
the independent Liberal press. To demonstrate that
the landed aristocracy really look only to enrich-
ing themselves while they make laws which really
plunder the people, though they pretend that they
mean to enrich them and strive to protect them, is
at present one of the first duties of those who are
convinced that unless abuses be rooted out the
society will be exposed to imminent danger. To
re%zt;r,! our institutms to tl,^ rcsi,ect of the peqlo
„,,,,t be partied and thr.:y can cnty be ptsitici
by abating the power of the two bodies the aris-
tocracy and the priesthood, who subsist in splendour

by corrupting and debasing
munity.

the rest of the co►n-

We copy from the Caiiiiiatolt and DenMgh
Herald, an account of the manner in which the
bequest of a Doctor JEFFRY GLYNN, to matl-
tain a school for the education of poor mews
children at Bangor hai been perverted, as an appro-
priate pendent to the cases of the school at Kirton,
and the Mere Hospital at Lincoln. In the Bln-
gor case the property, which seems to have been
ample to fulfil the intentions of the d:,nor, was
placed under the trusteeship of the Bishop of the
Diocese, but it has been " diverted to other pur-
poses." "The Bangor school) says the editor (is
a fair (foul qy.) specimen of the manner in
which hundreds of similar foundations expressly
intended for the benefit of the poorer classes
of the community, when left to the tender

mercies of the Church, have been burked, and their

funds prostituted to the selfish objects of indivi-
duals." The cases we quoted on Saturday bear out
the remark that there arc hundreds of similar

foundations, expressly intended for the poor, which
have been appropriated by the priesthood to their
own uses. The other remarks of our Contempo-
rary are deserving of public attention, and they
will be found in an article under the head " Dis-
honesty of the Priesthood."•
We by no means bring forward these cases at
present as things wholly new and unknown ; inany
similar cases have been brought under the public
notice before, but seem to be almost forgotten. Just
now these fresh cases conic appropriately to revive
in the public mind a knowledge of the iniquities of
the priesthood, because that body is labouring most
assiduously to blacken the character of Dissenters,
Catholics, and Idolators, and indeed of all men who
do not hearken exclusively to them. They are en-
gaged in a most odious and uncharitable crusade
against men of all other religions, as witness the
calumnies of which .`7;l. CHARLES FORBES has
shown the Bishop of LONDON made himself
the ready instrument to disseminate in his
place in Parliament—the petitions which the
Protestant Society are getting up against Messrs.
WYSE, MORE O'FERRALL, and SHIEL, because
they are Catholics—and the persecutions, some of
which are recorded in our paper of to-day, cf Dis-
senters, for not paying Church-rates ; and, there-
fore, it is now most appropriate, and indeed espe-
cially necessary, to bring the delinquencies of our
intolerant, ambitious, and persecuting priesthood

prominently before the public.
Let it not be said for one moment that the cases
we have quoted, are the vices of
individuals and do
not affect the body. It is not so. The case of the
Mere Hospital implicates the whole body of the
diani-
lied clergy of Lincoln, for many years. There is the
will of the founder, SIMON DE RoPPELL. ill their
own possession, constituting the title deed of the
estate they have administered, and in that, it is as
plainly written as words can write, that the bequest
was for clothing and maintaining thirteen poor
persons. These dignitaries could no more have
been ignorant of the purpose of the devise, than of
their own misappropriation of the funds, and they
have gone on for mote than 2.00 years knowingly
taking the property of the poor, and appropriating
it to their own use. In a report made to CHARLES
11. in 1665, the revenues of Mcre Hospital were
described as " considerable, and said to be perverted;"
yet all the successive Bishops, Deans, and Chapters,
from that time down to the present day, have gone on
knowingly and wilfully taking away the property of
the poor, and converting it into a heritage for them..
selves and their children. The last person who
bestowed it was Dr. PRETYMAN TOMLINE, the
Bishop of Lincoln, and he bestowed it on his son,
the Rev. RICHARD PRETYMAN ; both these Rev.
gentlemen, in giving and receiving, only imitated
the example of previous Bishops, their sons,
nephews, and reverend protegees. We are entitled
from this one case, and there are many similar cases
in every part of the country, to affirm that the
practices we have denounced are common to the
great body of the priesthood. They are in truth
more prevalent amongst the dignitaries of the body
than amongst the working clergy, who, though
they share not in the plunder, are obliged to
bear the contumely which the conduct of Bishops
and Deans brings on their order.
It must not be said or thought that the length
of time during which the dignitaries of Lincoln have
misappropriated these funds justifies their conduct ;
that, having plundered the pocr: for a long. period,
they have acquired a right to plunder them. If
this be so then are the inquiries of the Commis-
sioners wholly useless, and the Act of Parliament,
which constitutes them, ought to have prescribed
some term beyond which their inquiries should not
extend. The warrant by which they go back to
the origin of such property justifies us in saying
that it is no excuse for the conduct of the existing
generation of parsons, that their predecessors, in
spite of the express terms of wills and charters,
have appropriated to their own use the property
destined for the poor. If there be any one cir-
cumstance
which is supposed more than another to
to give a heinous character to acts of spoliation,
it is that of abusing a trust confided by the will of
the dead : and that characteristic of heinousness
belongs to the conduct of the clergy in the cases we
have quoted.
On a more minute examination than we could
give the Report on Saturday we find that the value
of the property is thus described :
" The estate belonging to the hospital is situated four
igttuhfreeanic fere.
farm,
miles south of the city of Lincoln, and is said to be extra
ilo)yani renoglcahr It comprises 874 A. 2a. 20e.
ea.nd is remarkably adapted to for ta
though at present it in the
occupation of four tenants, the chief of whom is Mr. Wm.
Mackinder, who hold s Major Colegrave."
parochial
withinaagnardi
agricultural
It was the MAJOR who paid the fines of
13,4281. mentioned on Saturday, and he no
daulit derives an income from the land as
well as the Revereld Mr. PRETYMAN and the
tenant. In fact, the land is described by a sur-
veyor as " worth 255. per acre," and " since the
improvement of the times 30a. per acre." At the
smaller sum the annual rent will be 1,0921., from
which deduct 241. given to the poor and 81. to the
Chapelwarden, and we arrive at the sum of 1,0601.
per year of which the poor of Lincoln are de-
frauded by the Clergy of Lincoln. The public
will no longer be surprised at the obstinate resis-
tance which the Clergy made to the proposed in-
quiry into Church leases, nor at their having set
to work all the engines at their command to
thwart every plan for ascertaining the exact amount
of their revenues, and for appropriating them to the
purposes for which they were originally destined.

Under the head of " Police Intelligence" will be
found a report of some proceedings which took place
at Bow-street on Saturday, founded on the clause of
the New Police Act relative to the opening of pub-
lic houses on Sunday. It will be recollected that
the ex-Magistrate, Mr. MINSHULL, among the
last of his official acts fined a number of publicans
5/. each for what he considered a breach of the
Act. Though the Bill had been passed only the
previous week, though one of the defendants
had received no notice of the intentions of the
police authorities, and a very general belief
prevailed among well-informed persons that the
decision of the Magistrate was at variance with the
spirit and letter of the Act, he, nevertheless, im-
posed the highest fine, at the same time very con-
sistently expressing his re:iret that there was no ap-
peal. This was Mr. MINSHULL S last. Next
came the new Chief Magistrate, Mr. HALL, and
on Saturday the proprietor of the Grand Hotel,
Covent Garden, appeared before him on a similar
information. He had kept his house'open for two
Saturday
nights after twelve, he had Members of
Parliament, and Noble Lords, and other great peo-
ple as customers, and if he was really committing
an offence against the law with the concurrence of
these Legislators, and also repeating the offence, it
was the duty of the Magistrate to visit it with the
utmost penalty. No• such thing. He. was fined
forty shillings. So much for the caprice of Ma-
gistrates. But this is not the only inconsistency
in these cases. The solicitor for the defendant
urged the common sense and also the literal sense
view of the clause, contending that the Legislature
meant a
practice, and he might have added, had they meant
new opening with reference to the former
anything else, that they would have expresdv
declared that all public-houses shall be closed
at twelve. The Magistrate however saw the case
with a legal eye, and asserted that the objection
could not for one moment be supported. Both Mr.
MINSHULL and Mr. HALL, appear to have
divined the intention of the Legislature clearly,
et, lien the uill'orojuate pubiietu) inquire how
shall act 'not to offend against the law,
he is informed by the Chief Magistrate that
he must decline answering a question involving

a point which was not before him to decide. Now
this very point was before him. It wits th.e point 1
Optinogi or keeping ortn, the house for a cus-
tomer who might want a bed alter twelve ; but this,
in the language of the Magistrate, is a " supposi-
tions vete,' tven; supposing, llowever, that the
prec:se point was nOt bclote ttlir sholl.ld
who is paid for studying the Act, and Vviititypearsto
comprehend it so easily, refuse to give a little
formation to one oho possibly may he 'nought up
next Monday for a breach of it ? Mr. HALL re-!
ceives 1001. from the public for attending to their
interests, and, as the great object of good laws is
to prevent offences rather than to punish them, it
would have been only an act of justice and mercy
to communicate a little of his knowledge to the
unsophisticated publican. That, however, is not
the character which Police Mseistrates arc anxious
to assume. Like executioners, they are on the bench
oily to carry the law into effect. What with Ma-
gistrates, and licensing Justices, anti Legislators, and
customers, these unfortunate publicans are in a most
unenviable position under present circumstances. If
they should venture to interpret the Act according
to common sense they are threatened with the
loss of their license, or if they obey the dictum
of the Magistrate, they are threatened with the
loss of their customers ; and this anomalous
state of things, affecting some six thousand
householders, independent of the vast number that
frequent their houses, arises from two Magistrates de-
ciding that the Legislature has enacted that all pub-
lic-houses shall be closed at twelve, without specify-
ing that hour, or making the slightest allusion
to it. Is it not reasonable to believe that if
such were the meaning of those- who framed
the BM, they would liave pointed out the
hour for closing as precisely as the hour for open-
ing ? But they never had any such intention.
Their sole object, as appears in all the discussions
on the Bill, was to prevent the opening of the
houses, as formerly, between six or eight in the
morning and the hour of church service. No
speaker, as far as we have seen the reports, made
the slightest allusion to such an important and
invidious change in the law ; a change which
would afford but too much reason for com-
paring our police constables to the tens ar-
toes of France, break up many respectable
Clubs and Societies which can be held only on
Saturday nights, and unnecessarily raise a violent
outcry from Whigs and Radicals, as well as Tories,
against the centralizma, coercing, and club-closing
whey of the Whigs. ''We will not at present enter
n:o the merits of a law in our opinion thus erro-
icously interpreted.

We advert with sorrow to the advertisement con-
taining the protest of the Corporation of Binning
ham against the Police Bill imposed upon that in-
dustrious, liberal, and influential portion of tl,e
manufacturing coulmunity. It was unsought for
by the old friends of the Whig Government, but

forced on them at the instance of the Home Secre-
tary, by and with the advice of Sir ROBERT PEEL
and the clique of Tories at Birmingham. The
Government would not take the advice of Lord
BROUGHAM, nor listen to the solicitation of their
political supporters in the borough, but prefetred

the advice of their hitter enemies, and the hitter
enemies also of all truly popular and representative

institutions. And what has been the result? A
declaration of open war, and a manifesto calling
upon all corporate bodies to enlist with them
in fighting for the principle of self-government.
Sir R. ?EEL plays this sort of game admirably.
By following his suggestions Lord JOHN RUS-
SELL acquired the lasting enmity of the Corpora-
tion of London. He has now added to that the
hostility of Birmingham ; and had he remained
longer in the Home Office, these two most influen-
tial places in their respective districts would have
united in raising an outcry against him from all
the Corporations throught the kingdom. This
comes from taking the advice of an enemy. His
successor has more tact. He acquired the con-
fidence of the Liberal party in Ireland by setting
the Orangemen at defiance ; and though his pre-
vious conduct warrants the inference that he will
follow a similar course here, the example and the
results cannot fail to have their due effects.

By the arrival of the Iberia steamer at Falmouth
on Saturday, we have received Lisbon Papers of
the 2d inst. So great was the excitement against
England for passing the Slave Trade Suppression
Bill, that the Government was obliged to interfere,
by directing the Attorney-General to prosecute
Journals guilty of publishing libels upon the Bri-
tish Government. The police were likewise directed
to prevent the circulation of libellous hand-bills,
and to offer all necessary protection to the persons
and property of British subjects.
Exchange on London, 56i at long dates ; ex-paper
money, 57 per cent. dis.

There is no domestic news of any interest in the
Paris Journals of Friday and Saturday. The in-
telligence from Spain and the East is important,
and will be found in another part of The Sun.
The KING and Royal Family were to arrive at St.
Cloud yesterday from the chateau of Eu.
The latest Papers from Madrid are of the 31st
ult. Every thing was then in readiness for open-
ing the Cortes on the following day. The Bank of
San Fernando had placed at the disposal of
the Finance Minister five millions of reals for
the use of the army of the north. On the Madrid
Bourse the Four per Cents. were done on the 31st
ult. at 23k, and 24 for cash. The New Five per
Cents. rose from 2.5 i to 262, 26 and 4for cash,
and the last time bargain was concluded at 30, a 6
60 days, with Ft premium. The whole capi,al ne-
gotiated in these securities amounted to 48,000,000
reals.