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to the bad weather Espartero's troops are still in the town, I SPIRIT OF THE
but there is no sign whatever of the enemy, who, as I have
above stated, have taken refuge in their homes. Don Car-
los has fled from his favoured Durango ; he has taken the
road to Ellorio by Aspeytia. The Queen's troops will
march upon Durango as soon as the weather permits.

The following is the text of the proclamation issued by
the Infant Don Sebastian Gabriel, Captain-General-in.
Chief, on taking the command of the army :
" Soldiers—The King, my beloved uncle, whose sole
thoughts are for your welfare, has conferred on me the
command of the army. It is not for your General to judge
the resolutions of his Sovereign, but to prove that he has
given you for a chief a comrad disposed to share in all your
labours and fatigues. I have often witnessed your exploits.
You will' yourselves have an opportunity of witnessing my
zeal for your welfare, and my efforts to terminate a war in
which you are already covered with glory. Observe how
the country contemplates your actions. The country groans
beneath the yoke of that atrocious, usurping, and anarchical
faction which devours the prosperity of the country, tor-
tures its victims, and by its impious acts, wearies the pa-
tience of Almighty Providence. Soldiers—For you is
reserved the glory of plunging this faction into the abyss
from which it has risen. You have before saved Europe—
you will save her again. You are the defenders pre-des-
tined to preserve the throne, and to secure order, by show-
ing to the world what a handful of men can effect, and by
exposing the intrigues of a vile ambition, entrenched be-
hind the aegis of treaties. Never has a more glorious un-
dertaking been reserved for the brave ! Confide in the
justice of your cause ! The God of armies will protect
that glorious mission which you have already honoured by
your courage, and dignified by your sufferings. A few
more efforts, and victory, my brave friends, will infallibly
crown your labours.
(Signed) "The Infant D. SEBASTIAN GABRIEL.
" Head-quarters, Galdacano, Dec. 30."

'UBLIC JOURNALS.

The account of the dinner given to Mr. George R.
Philips, Membee for Kidderminster, by his constitue
ents, certainly supplies no proof of the dissatisfaction
with Ministers, of which so much has been said by a
certain class of Reformers. Mr. Philips 'went over
the proceedings of the lass. session, and claimed for
Ministers the merit of several excellent measures, and
observed, " The Government would, he was con-
vinced, have done more, but they must recollect that
they were not omnipotent. It was very well for one
party to say, why don't you do this, and why don't
you do that ? But it was one thing to propose. a mea-
sure, and another thing to carry it ; and it was against
wisdom and common. -sense, for any Government to -
bring forward measures in which they must meet
with perpetual discomfiture." These sentiments
were loudly cheered by the meeting. In short,
the people allow for the difficulties in which Mini-
sters are placed, and do not call on- them to make
bricks without straw. The case against them is so
grossly overstated, that something like the same effect
is produced on the people as that which is produced
on a jury by the extravagant exaggeration of a blunder-
ing barrister. A calm, appeal to Reformers, pointing
out with fairness wherein any of the measures of Mi-
nisters fell short of the just expectations of the people,
and indicating the course to be pursued in and out Of
Parliament, with a view to influence the Government,
might have been productive of the best consequences ;
but the unmeasured vituperation to which reccurse was
had will only have the effect of rendering Reformers
at public meetings more timid than they might other-
wise have been in stating the claims of the people,
lest they should be supposed to participate in any
schemes'for breaking up the Ministry. It seems to be
eVerywhere understood that the Lords have repented
of the Lyndhurst policy, by which Ireland has been so
much alienated. Mr. Philips said "he felt a confi-
deuce, amounting to a moral certainty, that the
House of Lords would be compelled to pass that mea-
sure;'—Morning Chronicle.
With reference to the Whig-Radical organs them-
selves, the cry of " beardless youths" set up against
the student-electors in Glasgow University merely
stultifies the former exultation, periodically displayed
in the same quarters, at each recurring election of a
liberal statesman, lawyer, or poet to the rectorial chair.
But, for the sake of the public generally, it may be as
well to state that this cry is raised on grounds utterly
false. All matriculated students have the academic
franchise. Of these more than two-thirds are in at-
tendance on the divinity, law, medicine, natural philo-
sophy, and moral philosophy classes—men in beard, in
years, in mind, in character, in habits of reflection,
and in spirit to act according to the dictates of their
judgment. Even of those students who rank, as the
technical phrase is, in the classes of Logic, Greek, and
Latin, a very large proportion are of virile years, and
certainly as capable of 'thinking and acting for them-
selves as any of those persons who now think it right
to undervalue them. We give -a low average, and
on the best authority, when we say ilia at least
one half of the Logic and Greek students are above
the age of 19 ; and in the Latin class itself, which is
lowest in the academic course, there arc many persons
of mature years who have commenced their literary
pursuits late in life. Add to this, that only in one
nation or division of the students, namely, the Glot-
tiana, comprising those from Glasgow and its neigh-
bourhood, are many very youthful voters found. That
division certainly voted for Sir R. Peel, and we mis-
take his character if he feels any sentiment of disdain
for the generous impulse of .young hearts thus render-
ing an unbribed tribute to his worth and talents. But
for him also voted the divisions Loudoniana andßoth-
seiana, the former of which consists, in great measure,
of the most advanced students. The only nation in
which there was a majority for Sir J. Campbell was
the Transfinikana, the name of which indicates its
local position ; and to that locality, and the clannish
feelings inspired by it, we charitably impute the sin-
gular preference it showed on this occasion.—[It may
be necessary to explain to such of our readers as are
unacquainted with the constitution of the University
of Glasgow, that for the election of the Lord Rector,
the professors and students are divided into four na-
tions—the Glottiana, comprising all who are natives
of Glasgow and the Vale of Clyde ; the Rothsciana,
which comprehends- all the students from the Hebrides, -
Ireland, and part of the West Highlands ; the Loudo-
niana, including those who come from Edinburgh and
the adjacent districts, from England, or from the co-
lonies ; and the Transforthana, containing the students
from the North Highlands, and also those who are fo-
reigners by birth. The sense of each division is of
course determined by the -votes of the electors who
compose it, and as the nation Glottiana is by far the
largest of them, a candidate who obtained their voices
might have a gross majority of the votes given in the
four _nations, and yet be defeated by having the voices
Of the other three nations against him.]—Tintes.
The visit of Sir Robert Peel to Scotland is pro-
ducing a sensation in that country more lively and
more extensive than had been expected, even by those
who estimated most highly the importance of tire oc-
casion—more lively and extensive than would have
been sufficient to satisfy the wishes even of the warmest
and most sanguine friends of those political principles
of which the Right Hon. Baronet is the first and
ablest champion. When we read the accounts which
reach us by every post, we find it difficult to imagine
that there can ever have existed in Scotland any con-
siderable number of those strange descriptions of po-
litical curiosities known in by-gone times under the
denominations of Radical and ,Whig. They are all
gone clean out of sight—dissipated by the approach
of the great Conservative leader, as completely as ever
mist, clinging to the side of a Scottish mountain, was
4lispersecr by the rays of the meridian sun. Such ves-
tiges of the scattered factions
,as yet remain are to be
found only in the packed conclaves of town councils
like that of Glasgow, where they lurk in sullen gloom
and frigid self-conceit, apart from. all sympathy with
their fellow men—just like fragments of the over-
powered mist, which often skulk before the glorious
luminary of day into deep caverns, and fissures of the
mountain, where neither light nor warmth can ever
penetrate. We have collected, in another part of our
paper, several interesting particulars, which illustrate
the frank, and cordial, and generous spirit in which all
classes, and, we might add, all parties, but that Scot-
land seems now to contain only one, vie with each
other in showering marks of confidence, esteem, and
affection upon their distinguished guest—the guest of
Scotland—for a noble and hospitable nation has taught
us to feel that any other designation would now be de-
rogatory to the dignity and importance of.the occasion.
To be the honoured and cherished guest of the Uni-
versity and the City of GlasgoW, after having received
from the former the highest distinction it had to con-
fer, would have been enough to satisfy the loftiest aspi-
ration of honourable ambition ; it would, no doubt,
have fully satisfied that of Sir Robert Peel. But
Scotland has decided otherwise : it has claimed a
general participation in the honour of entertaining
him ; and has hailed his approach by the sponta-
neous and universal acclamation, that, as a man and
a statesman, he is entirely worthy of having a na-
tion for Iris host. But it is not to Scotland only that
we should look upon this occasion for testimony to the
weighs and dignity of Sir- Robert Peel's character,
and to the importance of that national manifestation.
of feeling and principle of which his visit to that
country is the immediate cause-. The anxiety and im-
patience of the people of England to obtain the earliest
tidings of all that occurs on the occasion-of this visit,
and, above all, the painful solicitude manifested by
Sir Robert Peel's political opponents attest still, per-
haps, inure clearly the magnitude of the transaction..
The intensity of the interest which is excited by this
great occurrence among all classes and parties of the
people of England is plainly shown by the conduct
which the' London press has thought it necessary to
pursue with respect to it. Every one of the London
morning papers, without, we believe, a single excep-
tion, of Conservative, Radical, or Whig, has a nume-
rous corps of reporters at Glasgow ; every one, without,
we believe, a single exception, has made costly
and complicated arrangements for the conveyance
of their reports to the metropolis with the greatest
possible speed. So strongly, indeed, does the tide of
interest and sympathy set m one direction, that c. ven.
Whig and Radical Journals are struggling; t(3, sup-