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Jf thc House, tf.) inCLZUrC- ill cszal
the House after that Standing Order was agreed to,
and we annex the titles of nine Bills—viz., Ashby
and Hillington, Carlton and Lofthouse, Clapton,
Clum Forest, Cranfield, Mansergh, Marchtnont,
Newbold, Weinforth and Woal. It is to
.be hoped
that the inhabitants of all these parishes will take care
that they have such sufficient open spaces secured to

them and their successors, for ever, as the House of
Commons intended, by that Standing Order, should
be left.

The object is so important to the health and comfort
of the people, that we trust some Member will bring
before the House a plan for providing, in all possible
cases, grounds for exercise and recreation ; and no
one more proper, if he has time, than Mr. HUME,
who has made a beginning ; and who is now, as we
are informed, labouring to procure admission for the
working classes to see the works of Art in all public
buildings ; and also to have the Cathedrals, the
grandest of our national buildings, accessible, at all
reasonable times, without fees, now almost universally
charged.

At a meeting, held at Salford lately, for the pur-
pose of drawing up a petition to the Legislature in
favour of a system of national education, some
startling facts were stated by Mr. `NYSE, the know-
ledge of which cannot be too generally diffused
among those who have the means or will to pro-
mote the peace of the country, and the morality of the
people. Many of the statements made by Mr. NYSE
were founded on the best authority, and place
beyond doubt the deplorable ignorance of the
lower classes, and point out one great cause of crime
throughout England. It would appear that not more
than one million persons, or one in fifteen, receive even
the ordinary rudiments of reading and writing, and the
number being so limited, it necessarily follows that
many persons who belong to what is called the
respectable class in England cannot even write.
The Reports of the Poor-law Commissioners give
instances of many Overseers who could not sign
their names ; and Mr. VILLIERS states that only
about one-fourth of the Overseers in the county of
Devon could write I In the manufacturing town of
Boltonn, one-half receive no instruction whatever—in
York, one-third are in the same condition—and in the
country the state of the people is even still more de-
plorable. In the parish of Thome, in Oxfordshire,
containing a population of 7,000, only 197 children
receive daily education, and 1,200 none at all ; and in
that county which the BUCKINGHAM family has
especially under its care, and the well-being of whose
inhabitants Lord CH ANDOS has so mueh at heart, only

10 out of every 100 labourers and their wives can read,
and only lin 90 can write i Can it excite any
surprise then that where such ignorance prevails there
should be much crime ; that the peasantry should be
little elevated above the criminals they drive to labour,
or that the class immediately above them should be
driven to the hustings like a gang of slaves ? The
day, however, we believe is at hand when both the
Government and the people will see the necessity of
wiping out such a stain on the character of the
people of England, and devise means for dif-
fusing the rudiments of useful education into every part
and cellar throughout the kingdom. Salford has led
the way in petitioning the Legislature ; and that ex-
cellent Institution, the Statistical Society of Man-
chester, has done much, not merely to show the abso-
lute want of education among a vast proportion of the
poor, but the uselessnes of that sort of education which
even a portion of them receive.

No Madrid Papers of later date than those received
yesterday have arrived. We are therefore left to the
gleanings which we can make from the Paris Papers
of Thursday, for information respecting the important
events which are taking place on the theatre of war in
Spain. We find it stated in some of these Journals
that dispatches from Madrid, dated the 23d, had been
received in Paris, bringing the intelligence that Es-
PARTERO had announced to the Government that he
had reached Fuentes, in pursuit of the main body of
the Carlist army, which was retreating in disorder
towards Trillo. There are no particulars given of the

battle fought near Guadalaxara on the 19th ; but it is
vaguely reported to have been more serious to the
Carlists than ESPARTERO had represented it. This
we are very much inclined to doubt. ESPARTERO is
not the man to underrate his own exploits, and until
we see the list of killed, wounded, and prisoners, we

must suspend our judgment as to the actual extent of
the damage inflicted upon the Pretender in this en-
counter. ORAA is stated to have been at Huete on
the 21st, and to have routed a rebel corps 6,000 strong,
which he was pursuing in a southerly direction. This
ja rather contradictory. ORAA wag at Cuenca
on the 16th. If he had defeated a division of the
Carlists, and was pursuing them in a southerly direction,
it -is not easy to conceive how he could be at Huete on
the 21st, as Huete is only about ten miles from
Cuenca, from which place it lies in a direction rather
to the North of West. Who commanded the Car-

lists, where they :came from in such formidable
numbers, or why they fled to the south when they
ought to have gone to the north, we are not told.
Nothing furtherrs known of ZARATIEIGUY'S move-
ments. There is a report that he had taken the towns
of Lerma and Aranda de Fuero, which is not at all

unlikely, as they lay in his way as he advanced to the
line upon which Don CA RLOS is retreating.
Fears are entertained for the safety of Ceuta. The
last accounts from that quarter represented that place
to be in a state of siege by the Moors, and not likely,
owing to the insufficiency of the garrison, to hold out
long. Application had been made to the Spanish Go-
vernment for assistance, but it has no means of relief at
its disposal.
The following is the decree respecting the extraor-
dinary war contribution, which we stated yesterday
had been issued by the Cortes, and sanctioned by the
Government :
" The Cortes have decreed as follows :
" Art I.—An extraordinary war contribution is estab-
lished upon all kinds of national property, in order to cover
the presumed deficit between the revenue and expenses of
the state during the present year.
" Art. 2. The amount of this contribution, and the por-
tion of it which each province will have to render, will be
hereafter fixed by the Cortes. The provincial deputations
and municipalities will undertake the distribution of it in
their respective districts.
" Art. 3.—The revenues of the country or towns in the
possession of secular ecclesiastics are likewise comprised in
the necessity of contributions, whether they be under the
name of patrimonial revenue or any other, as well as other
revenues of any communities derived from property which
the laws in force do not declare State property, and also the
produce of any industrial occupations exercised by the
secular clergy. All exemptions whatever, for whatever
motives they may have been granted, are to be null and of
no effect for the present contribution.
" Art. 4.—The_rents, either in country or town, which
belong to the State, including those which have belonged to
the secular clergy and have been declared national property.
" Art. 5. In payment of shares in this contribution such
documents will be admitted as prove that money or ma-
terials have been furnished, by the persons liable, to the na-
tional armies during the present war, provided that their
documents ho duly legalized.
" Art. 6. In order that the labouring classes form no
exception to this general national contribution, conformably
to the dispositions of the law of the 16th July last, all the
other classes will have to contribute in the following man-
, per:—

( Articles 7,8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13, refer to the manner
of division.)
" Art. 14. The government shall have the power of sus-
pending the execution of Articles 7,8, and 9, in the ancient
kingdom of Aragon, in consideration of its peculiar system
of division of state contributions.
" ADDITIONAL CLAUSE.

" The Government shall propose to the Cortes, as soon

nf 7,nplr ort,M7lt;,,
finning the object of the present law, as weli as the distrt-
bution that is to be made in the provinces.
(Signed) " THE QUEEN REGENT.
" Bth Sept. 1837."
_

The following are extracts from the French Papers :
PARIS, SEPT. 28.—A journal says that the Court is di-
vided into two parties, from a cause which must affect an
august personage, who with the rare penetration which dis-
tinguishes him, sees in it the germ of much embarrassment
in the family. The different positions in which events have
placed the Dukes of Orleans and Nemours, have not
escaped the courtiers, and some of them already indulge
in pleasantries on the splendid amusements of Compeigne,
compared with the military fatigues of the expedition to
Constantine. The friends of the Duke of Orleans com-
plain bitterly of the equivocal position in which the eldest
son of the family is placed, in respect to a younger brother
returning victorious from an expedition in Africa, from
which he only returned ill.
The Duke of Orleans is said to be seriously affected by
this state of things, who, notwithstanding the tender friend-
ship for the Duke of Nemours, does not dissemble the ad-
vantages which that Prince will have over him on returning
covered with the laurels of Constantine, while he, the head
of the family will scarcely have soiled the epaulettes of his
Lieutenant-General's uniform in shooting rabbits in the
forests of Compeigne, or in the exercises on the plateau of
Marigny. Accordingly it is said that the Prince has been
muelihurt by a sally of an eminent diplomatic personage in
the drawing-room of a Minister, who, speaking of the
grand evolutions at Compeigne, said :—" II paruit que M.
le Due de Nemours fait la grande guerre pendant que son
frere M. le Due d'Orleans va faire le petite guerre."—La
Gazette de France, Sept. 28.

FRENCH FONDS.-PAets, SEPT. :28.
Five per Cents., 108 f. 20c. 25e. 20c.
Four per Cents., 99f. 90e.
Thr. e per Cents. 79f 50c. 45c. 5(.c.
Bank Actions, 2,427 f. :We.
Rent° GC Naples, 98f. 97f. 95e. 9Sf
Roman Five per Cents., 101 .1003 s 101.
Spanish Actives, 1.1014.
Spanish Passives, 4N.
Belgian Loan, Fire per Cents., 104 M.
Brussels Society, 1,662 f. 50c.
Belgian Bank, 1..157f. 50c.
Portuguese Three per Cents. 25; %.
Haytian Loan, 370 f.
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, -f. -c.; money, 25f. 47IAc.
Three months, paper, -f. -c. ; money, 251. 30c
Authennaue.
LAST PRICES
Five per Colts.' Ingl.
Three per Cents. 79f. 50c.
Bank Actions, 2,427 f. 50C.
Roman Five per Cents , 101.
Belgian Loan, 10414.
Belgian Bank, 1,457 f 50c.
Portuguese Three per Cents ,
Haytian Loan, 370 f.
Spanish Actives, 20q.
Spanish Passives 4
Spanish Differes 614.
New Differes, ON.