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LONDON,
TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 21, 1837.

In the House of Lords, yesterday, the sitting was but of
short continuance. Amongst the petitions presented on
Church-rates, and various other subjects, were two, praying
that no alteration be made in the present Poor-law Amend-
ment Act—an Act, said the Duke of RicHmoND, the most
beneficial which had ever passed their Lordships' House.

After some remarks by Lord BROUGHAM on the Scotch
and Irish Vagrants' Bill, the third reading was postponed
till the 6th of April.
The Wills Bill was read a third time, and passed.
In the House of Commons, Lord Joke.; RUSSELL, in
answer to a question from Mr. LAMBTON, stated that it
was not the intention of Government to proceed with the
Church-rates Bill till after the Easter Recess.
A new writ was ordered for the borough of Warwick, in
the room of the Hon. C. CANNING, now called to the
other House.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL stated, in reference to Mr. HOR-
NER and the Factory Act, that it was the opinion of the
Law Officers of the Crown, that those regulations, adopted
by that gentleman, which related to the judging of the age
of children from the strength of their persons only, without
referring to any other evidence which might be given of
their actual ages, were not in conformity with the spirit of
the Act ; and that a communication to that effect had been
conveyed to Mr. HORNER, the Commissioner.
Lord ASaLEY said he was satisfied, and should not now
press the motion of which he had previously given notice.
Mr. MACLEAN gave notice that on the 20th of April,
he would move for Returns relative to the College of
Maynooth, and he would then draw the attention of the
House to the condition of the second order of the Ca.
tholic Priesthood in Ireland.

A short conversation ensued on Spanish affairs.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL, with Mr. ROEBUCK'S concur
rence, fixed the debate on the affairs of Canada for the
first. Wednesday after Easter.
In reference to the Imprisonment for Debt Bill, the
ATTORNEY-GENERAL said he should forward that measure
with as little delay as possible.

Mr. O'CONNELL brought forward a motion respecting
statements in Mr. E. TENNENT'3 speech at Belfast. The
statements involved the character of the MASTER of the
RoLr.s. The Learned Gentleman afterwards withdrew
his motion, and gave notice that he should bring it forward
on the first Friday after the Recess.
The House went into Committee on the Municipal
Corporations (Ireland) Bill. The various clauses were
considered, and the Report was ordered to be taken into
consideration r.n Wednesday.
The only Division which took place was on the 96th
clause, when Mr. S. CRAwrotto moved as an amendment
that the LORD LIEUTENANT should not possess the rower
of rejecting the Sheriffs elected by the Town-Councils.
The House adjourned at a Quarter-past Twelve o'Clock.

Our readers will perceive by by the Parliamentary pro-
ceedings that the Church-rate Bill is postponed till
after the Easter holidays. It will then be brought in,
and, we trust, under such auspices as to hold out a
well-grounded hope that, in its passage through the
House, it will conciliate to itself the favour of many
who arc at present either hostile or undecided. Much,
however, must depend upon the efforts, during the in-
terval, of those throughout the country who are opposed
to the continuance of Church-rates. The advocates of
abolition must not rest satisfied with what they have
already done. A new state of circumstances having
arisen, new exertions are required to meet it. It is
now necessary that the country should declare its opi-
nion of the Ministerial measure on the principle of
which the Houte of Commons has decided. In pro-
portion as declarations in its behalf are numerously
signed by the people will be the favour it receives at the
hands of their representatives. A broad hint from an
influential portion of a constituency has a wonderful
effect in enlightening the mind, and renewing the will,
aye and in melting the heart, of an Hon. Member.
Let the Abolitionists then, and all the friends of civil
and religious liberty, hold meetings, and send up peti-
tions to Parliament, expressing their cordial approba-
tion of the great and healing measure which his Ma-
jesty's Ministers have introduced to the attention of
the Legislature, and their determination to support
them, by all the constitutional means in their power,
in carrying it on to a successful issue. This duty is
the more incumbent on the Abolitionists, because the
Clergyare taking the most unjustifiable advantage of the
ignorance of the peasantry, in order to prevent the success
of the new measure. These messengers of truth and peace
are going about, in almost all the country parishes,
deceiving the simple and ignorant rustics into the
belief that the object of those who are for doing away
with Church-rates is, to bring in a Bill for pulling
down all the Churches. By such false representa-

tions they procure signatures to their petitions from
multitudes of the people, who, Were they tightly in-
formed as to the intentions of the Government, would
be most anxious to see its views carried into execu-
tion. Such petitions in great numbers have been
thus fraudulently got up, and are used by the Bishops
and such pettifogging Statesmen as Lord WYNFORD
as instruments of factious opposition.
We are happy to see that active Anti-Church'rate
operations have already commenced in various
places. A splendid Meeting was held yesterday at
Chelmsford in order to forward the good cause, and to
convince the public that there are a few respectable
people in Chelmsford besides those who signed
the petition presented the other night by Lord \V YN-
FORD. The all-bid-one unanimous petition of the.
Rector and inhabitants of Croydon has been also met
in the true spirit by a counter-petition signed by the
owners and farmers of many thousand acres of land in
Surrey praying for total abolition. Meetings with
the same object are, we are informed, about to be
held in many other places. This is the true way to
succeed.

We rejoice to see the French Chamber of Depu
ties at length showing something like the spirit and
independent conduct of a representative body. Since
the commencement of the present reign the KING has
made use of them only as tools to carry his own
selfish views into effect, or to register act after act
for restraining the liberties of the people ; but the re-
sult of the affairs at Strasburg and La Vendee—the
feeling throughout the country, as evinced by the ver-
dicts of Juries, and more particularly the bad feeling
towards Royalty displayed in the Army—seem to have
awakened them to a sense of duty. The KING has
been defeated on several important questions this ses-
sion ; and in all probability, he will not succeed to his
wishes in one to which he attaches the greatest impor-
tance—making provision for the younger branches of
his family. Is it surprising that the French people
should be so much opposed to these grants to a Prince
who has already an enormous private fortune, and a
Civil List larger perhaps than that of any Sovereign in
Europe, when they reflect how ill he has maintained
the character of the country, or sustained the glory of
the national arms, since he mounted the throne. From
the commencement of the struggle in Poland to the
disasters at Constantine, what has he done for either ?
The Poles were led to expect his support, and were
miserably deceived. He promised his assistance to
the Liberals in Spain, and gave it to the blood-stained
Don CARLOS. He suffered the nation to undergo
the reproaches, and submit to the menaces of the
United States of America, and then paid the money
—for the fault, though attributed to the Chamber,
was the fault of the KING and his Ministers.
Through means of a base agent he quarrelled
%%ith a peaceable neighbouring Republic, and, though
the aggressor, he covered the whole frontier with his
troops and Custom-house officers ; put a stop to its
trade ; and subjected to great loss and suffering the in-
habitants, who, high-spirited and braver, were vet
obliged to yield to a nation so vastly superior in
power and numbers. Has he made any atone-
ment by his domestic government for such con-
duct towards Poland, Spain, and Switzerland ?
In almost every new law he has circumscribed
more and more the liberties of the people, till
he has at last destroyed the two great pillars of free
government—the Liberty of the Press, and Trial by
Jury. Every friend of the French people, and every
friend of peace and good government throughout Eu-
rope, must think and speak of his conduct both in
anger and sorrow. Louis PHILIPPE knows well
that he has given the French people and the French
Army just causes for dissatisfaction, and he cannot,
therefore, be surprised that their representatives begin
to rebel against his Sovereign will. For his own sake,
but chiefly for the sake of his people, and the peace of
Europe, we pray that he may watch the signs of the
times, before he provokes a third revolution, which
would sweep another line of the BOURBON race from
the soil of France.

The Paris Papers of Sunday bring no further ac-
counts of the reported defeat of General EVANS, and
his retreat to San Sebastian. We can, therefore, only
repeat the doubts of the authenticity of the statement,
communicated by the French telegraph, which we con-
sidered it incumbent upon us to urge yesterday. It is
possible that General EVAN'S may have been driven
back to San Sebastian ; but even that will not ac-
count for the rumours of his defeat which were current
in London on Saturday evening. But whether victo-
rious or vanquished, it is some consolation to know
that the ultimate triumph of the Constitutional cause
depends not upon the bravery and the success
of General EvANs. Were the British Auxiliary
Legion driven into the sea by the Carlists, and every
foot of territory North of the Ebro in possession of
Don CARLOS, the Pretender would be as far removed
from the Crown of Spain as he is at this moment.
The Pretender, unless England and France unite
heartily against him, may succeed in drenching the
Peninsula with seas of blood—he may let loose the
vilest passions, and, by encouraging those crimes that
strike at the roots of civilised society, he may afflict
Spain with a moral pestilence from the dregs of which
a century will be too short to deliver her ; but never
shall the Crown of FERDINAND VII. encircle his
brows. The Carlist Quotidienne, in trumpeting the
defeat of General EVANS, congratulates its readers
upon the << Royal troops of England having shared in
the rout, one battalion of marines having covered the
retreat ;" adding in an insolent tone of triumph,
" the British flag was obliged to fly befOre thole
soldiers whom Lord PA LMERSTON calls banditti. The
dishonour of this defeat falls on the entire nation."
Now the dishonour of this retreat—if it really took
place, and under circumstances to reflect dishonour
upon the vanquished—can no more fall upon the Bri-
tish nation than the glory of the victory can be attri-
buted with justice to France, by whose Foreign Le-
gion disbanded at Pau, and now; serving in the ranks
of Don CARLOS, it must have been mainly achieved,
if achieved at all. There is something so dastardly in
the observations of the French Journals upon the con-
duct of the Legion, that we are really more astonished
at than annoyed by them. Assuming the account of
the retreat of General EVANS to San Sebastian to be
true, what are we to think of the bravery of a bat-
talion, probably not 300 strong, which effec-
tually covered the retreat of from 10,000 to
12,000 troops hotly pursued by a force which cannot
have fallen short of 30,000 ? Before we admit that
General EvANs' defeat was either discreditable to his
own talents as an officer, or dishonourable to the British
flag, we must he informed of the way in which it was
conducted, and the strength of the enemy. To prove
to our Gallic Contemporaries, however, that the affair
does not give us much uneasiness, as far as regards our
'national glory, we will freely charge ourselves with the
dishonour of the defeat, if France will only be equally
ready to attribute to our generous sympathy, and spon-
taneous support, the political regeneration of Spain.
Be the result what it may, we shall not think the
less approvingly of the conduct of General EVANS in
attacking the Carlists. If SAARSFIELD be really a
secret partizan of Don CARLOS, as is confidently re-
ported in Paris, the sooner he is unmasked the better.
The defeat of EVANs—if confirmed in the way re-
ported by the telegraphic dispatches of the 17th and
ISth instant—will remove all doubts of GeneralSA A Rs-
F ELD'S treachery.
The Moniteur of the lgth has no official part. The Journal
de Paris has this morning the following article :—" According

to fresh inrorriiatian Which we have received to-day, from
ttome, we can again affirm that his Holiness has done every
thing in his power to induce his Grace the Archbishop of Paris
to observe a conduct more becoming, and especially more
Christian, towards the Government. The exalted wisdom of
the Supreme Head of the Church fully comprehends how, con-
trary to the attitude assumed by M. de Ruelen is to the duties
of a Bishop, as well as to the interests of religion ; how it
cherishes fatal prejudices which ought to be removed; how it
al'enates minds which ought to be attracted by the viandelital
virtues of which a trt ntrable Cardinal, M. de Cheveurs,
gave to splendid an example. The heart of the So-
vereign Pontiff is deeply affected. We could wish that
M. de Quelen would condescend succinctly to inform us
on what text of Scripture he relies to resist, we do not say
the temporal power, but the fraternal counsels and entreaties
of the Pope himself. It was not thus, we think, that Fenelon
acted. The source from which we have derived these particulars
prevents us more positively to vouch for their authenticity."—
Journal du Commerce, March 19.
We find the following conversation in the Quotidienne, and
leave to that journal the entire responsibility of it :
" It is said that Lord Granville had the other day a con-
versation with a well-known personage, respecting the speech
which was made by M. Villiers. The interlocutor of Lord
Granville is reported to have said :—' Toasts to everbody ex-
cept me This is an affront. It is, however, only a consequence
of another very unbecoming omission in the speech of your
Sovereign ; but on due consideration I do not complain that
Mr. Villiers and the Spanish demagogues said nothing about
me. I should have been sorry to see my name mixed up with
these revolutionary Saturnalia ; but I nevertheless remark
how ill England is disposed towards me. For my part lam
likewise not much inclined to much affection for it ; its alliance
has been more fatal than useful to me, and if England had
not been the first to acknowledge the transactions of 1830, I
certainly should not have done what I have done, and I be-
lieve, my Lord, that I and my famil3 would have been the bet-
ter for it.' "—Journal du Commerce, March 18.

There is very little domestic intelligence of any mo-
ment in the French Journals of Sunday. Some trifling
alarm was excited in Paris by reports of a disturbance
having taken place at Amiens, in the quelling of which
the National Guard refused to take any part. The
disturbance arose out of the imposition of a tax on
provisions imposed by the Municipal Council. This
tax was formerly levied on provisions sold within the
walls ; but various measures having been taken by pur-
chasers to evade its collection, by buying without the
gates of the city, the municipality resolved, at last,
to extend it to the suburbs. The populace resisted
the collectors ; a riot ensued ; and the National Guard
declining to interfere, the Prefect called out the 2d
regiment of Cuirassiers, who put the mob to flight,
and secured' the ringleaders, who were conveyed forth-
with to prison. In the evening an immense crowd of
the lowest characters assembled round the prison; and
demanded the instant liberation of their comrades.
The cavalry again made their appearance, and after
encountering a shower of missiles, succeeded in clearing
the streets, and restoring order.
The marked attention with which the King begins
to treat the Duchess de DINO, niece of old TALLEY-
RAND, is the theme of much speculation in the diplo-
matic circles of Paris. The Nouvelle Minerve states
that his MAJESTY sat by her on Saturday last for a
full hour, and during that time talked to her with much
apparent earnestness. Now, really, trifles of this kind
are too ridiculous to make such a pother about. Were
the Duchess de DINO handsome, and Louis PHIL-
LIPPE some twenty years younger than he is, we
would find it very easy to point out many sub-
jects that might engage them in one hour's
earnest conversation, without once alluding to the
strength or weakness of a Ministry or a party. Even
as matters stand between his MAJESTY and the
Duchess, we could suppose a conversation apart from
politics. Half the evil in all these cases originates in
attaching so much importance to circumstances really
below the notice of independent Journalists. If the
Press were wise enough to suppress the tittle-tattle of
the vulgar great--to leave fine Ladies and Noble
Lords to make the world acquainted with their idle
gossip at Court—it would exercise twice the influence
it now does over the well-being of society.
In the following extracts from the French Journals
we have inserted an article from the Quotidienne,
purporting to be the substance of a conversation
between our Ambassador at the French Court and
the citizen KING. 'We need hardly remark, that we
do not credit a syllable of it. It is manifestly a
Royalist fabrication, for which there cannot have been
the least grounds. That Louis PHILIPPE felt,
and feels, annoyed at the omission of his name in
the Royal Speech delivered at the opening of
Parliament is true, because his Ministers admitted as
much when interrogated respecting the cause of the
omission in the Chamber of Deputies ; but it is not
true that the French Government considered the
omission as a manifestation of bad feeling on
the part of England. On the contrary, both
the KING and M. MOLE rightly understood the omis-
sion as a mark, not of but of disapprobation of
the King of the FRENCH'S policy with regard to the
Peninsula. Besides, whatever may have been the feeling
of the British nation, and the language of the British
Press, on witnessing the unconstitutional acts of the
King of the FRENCH ever since his accession in 1831
—however strongly and emphatically we may have
denounced the system of arbitrary power attempted
to be established by LOUIS PHILIPPE, his Ma-
jesty is well aware that our Government has
never for an instant withdrawn from him its counte-
nance and support. Had it done so, he never would
have been able to abolish temporarily the liberty of the
subject, the freedom of the Press, and the trial by Jury.

The following extraordinary sustentation of human
life, without food or drink, has occurred within the last mouth,
in the rural village of Rivington, seven miles from Bolton, and
four from Chorley. On the 9th ult., in the morning, Thos.
Anderton, jun., aged 25 years, son of Mr. Thomas Anderton,
farmer, Rivinfilon, left his father's house. The young man,
who was labouring under an aberration of intellect, with
which he had been afflicted ever since an attack of brain
fever, was never afterwards seen or heard of until the
latter end of February, when some of the household of
Mr. Parr, of Rivington, who occupies a farm under Mr. An-
derton, sen., about a mile diStant from the farm of the latter,
heard strange noises proceed from the hayloft, which were re-
garded as the visitations of the ghost of an old lady who had
recently died in the family. On Wednesday, the Ist inst.,
Mrs. Parr being in the direction of the hay-loft, heard a most
distressing moan, and mentioned the circumstance to Mr.
Parr, and also that she had a presentiment that it was the
voice of young Anderton. Mr. Parr conceived :that she was
mistaken, but Mrs Par being so firmly impressed with a con-
viction that young Anderton was in the loft, sent for his
father. On his arrival the hay-loft was ssarched, and the poor
creature was found extended on the hay in a dying state. He
was reduced to a mere skeleton, and his skin was discoloured,
as if putrifying. The length of time since he was missing, is
20 days, during which he could not have tasted food, or liquid,
unless he had chewed the hay. The reason that the hay-loft
was not visited for such a length of time is, that Mr. Parr is
a dealer in young stock, and having none lately on his farm,
there was no occasion to go into the loft. The poor man
died on Wednesday.—Bolton Chronicle.
PARISIAN LlAlsoNs.—My friend was in a gos-
sipping mood this evening, and as she was well turned of 50,
I ventured to continue the conversation. As some of the
liaisons, which exist here must be novel to you, I shall mention
one or two more. A Madame de J— passed us, leaning on
the arm of M. de C—. I knew the former, who was a widow;
had frequently visited her, and had been surprised at the inti-
macyexisted
thome between
i nher house. hera
venture to as
and \I,
de C ,
ask my
always
appea rweld) eh
quite a
neigh-
bour if the gentleman were the brother of the lady, '6 Her
brother I It is to be hoped not, as he is her husband." " Why
does she not bear his name, if that be the case ?" " Because
her first husband was of a more illustrious family than her se-
cond ; and then there are some difficulties on the score of for-
tune. No, no. These people are bone fide married. Tent:—
do you see that gentleman who is standing so assiduously near
the chair of Madame de S—? He who is all attention and
smiles to the lady ?" " Certainly—his politeness is even affec-
tionate." " Well it ought to be, for it is M. de S—, her
husband." " They are a happy couple, then." " Hors de
doute—he meets her at soirees and balls ; is the pink of polite-
ness ; puts on her shawl ; secs her safe into her carriage, and
" " Then they drive home together, as loving as Darby and
Joan." " And then he jumps into his cabriolet, and drives to
the lodgings of— Bon soir, Monsieur—you are making me
fall into the vulgar crime of scandal." Now, as much as all
this may sound like invention, it is quite true that I repeat no
more to you than was said to me, and no more than what I be-
lieve to be exact. As respects the latter couple, I have been
el<ewhere told that they never literally see each other, except
in public, where they constantly meet as the best friends in
the world. I was lately in sonic English society, when Lady
G— bet a pair of gloves with Lord R-- that he had not
seen Lady R in a fortnight. The bet was won by the
gentleman, who proved satisfactorily that he had met his wife
at a dinner party, only ten days before.—Cooper's Recollec-
tions of Europe.

TO Loßii HIL

United Service Club, March 17.

MT LORD.—The late Brevet Promotion has given rise to
much expression of opinion on the scanty and unequal rewards
for Military Service, and although a very humble individual, I
take the liberty of addressing your Lordship, as having par-
taken of a large share during a period of nearly forty years.
It will be seen by teferente to the Army List that there are
denernis dnd fievienant- tloneralt without Regiments-1 but
who have been in the army fifty years and itpteards and tvhen
the uninitiated require explanation they are told such and such
a General never served ! !—Surely then they have no right to
hold that Honourable Rank, with a certain -though not very
munificent emolument attached to it ; and had the interests of
the profession and the country been consulted, they would
never have obtained either.
When, however, it becomes almost impossible to repair an
evil, the next best thing is to prevent a recurrence of it, and I
would therefore propose for consideration :-
Ist. That no officer of any Ranh should in future be allowed
to retire on half-pay (unless wounded) who has not served
twenty years consecutively on full pay ; and it is fair to con-
clude, if he has-passed that ordeal, that he has honestly per-
formed his duty.
2d. Those who are now on half-pay of any Ranh under
twenty years service should he obliged to fill vacancies or retire
altogether from the army. Such a regulation far from stopping
promotion would accelerate it ; half those so called upon would
immediately sell their Commissions rather than go to our
Colonies—thus there would soon be few General Officers who
had not served fairly.
Then comes the question—whether large emoluments should
be lavished on favoured individuals? And it is here suggested
' that Honorary Distinctions, the Gift and Boon of Majesty, to-
gether with the appointments to lucrative commands, are an equi-
valent and sufficient recompense to the honourable ambition of
the profession. Hence would arise the consideration of the
payment of General Officers, which might be nearly equalized
by Government taking the clothing of regiments into their
own hands, and the present savings being thrown into a fund

for that purpose. -
Under the present system, emolument must necessarily be
partially distributed, and depend as much on interest as merit.
Is it just that one General Officer should have a regiment—a
government—a pension for wounds (which don't affect his
health)—perchance, a lucrative command 1--and that there
should be others of equal, or nearly equal, pretensions, with
nothing but a bare subsistence ?
I shall, on a future occasion, take the liberty of saying a few
words on the monstrous injustice of the promotion in the House-
hold Troops, by which junior officers stop over the heads of
their seniors. I have the honour to be,
Your Lordship's obedient servant,
A COLONEL.