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stitution as a House of Commons. Moreover there is an
enlightened, firm, and united community, who have not
only a will, but a disposition to have that will respected :
and these two great parties, the People and their Repre-
sentatives, acting together for the common good, will take
special care that their Lordships, however difficult the
task, be promptly brought to see the error of their
ways, and repent. We lay little stress on last nights
proceedings in the House of Lords. The very cha-
racter of them, timid and temporizing as it is,
clearly proves that the faction stands in a salutary awe of
the popular energy, and will not too far commit itself. It
is our duty then to show their Lordships that their appre-
hensions are not unfounded ; that if they have a will, we
too have a will ; that if they have a voice in the State, we
too have a voice ; that if they have privileges, we too have
privileges ; and above all, that the time is gone by when
the Many yielded blind sycophantic obedience to the Few.
The Irish Municipal Reform Bill must not be regarded as
merely an Irish question ; nor the conduct of their Lord-
ships last night as affecting that country only. It affects
us all equally. It is another blow aimed direct at the heart
of Reform—another unequivocal, though cautious, mani-
festation of the faction's inveterate dislike to the principle
of constitutional freedom. Let us consider it then as
such—resent it as such—and teach these incorrigible
despots that the hour of forbearance is past. They ,are
only strong so long as we hesitate to act. A prompt, ener-
getic manifestation on our parts, such as we made during
the progress of the Reform Bill, would soon bring them to
their senses. Lord MELBOURNE, in reply to the Duke of
WELLINGTON, touched briefly, but emphatically, on- this
point, observing, " that the consequence of their persisting
in their present course might be to create a struggle and
contest between the two Houses. If they deferred a mea-
sure which was sent up to them by the other House of Par-
liament until they saw what that House did with other
measures that were before it, the other House of Parlia-
ment might defer measure: until it saw how their Lord-
ships might think proper to deal with other measures that
were .before it. And he begged to remind their Lordships
that such a postponement, on the part of the other House
of Parliament, might be attended with much more awkward
circumstances than any postponement on the part of their
Lordships." The House of Lords will do well to ponder
on these remarks, for they are pregnant with significant
meaning. Were the struggle which the Noble Viscount
here hints at once to commence, there can be no possible
doubt of its result. The House of Lords would be com-
pelled to give way at once ; and not only this, but, to
make sacrifices in exact proportion to the duration and
character of the resistance they have offered. We conjure
them to pause in time, and retire from a position which-
they can no -longer retain with safety. The ground
they stand on is hollowed and mined beneath their feet,
though externally it may appear as secure as ever. It is
not because the people are just at present tranquil, that
they are therefore indifferent. They are quiet from a con-
sciousness of strength, because they think it best to bide
their time, rather than prematurely expend and dissipate
their energies. Events, they feel, are working for them ;
and assuredly the admirable exposure made last night by
Lord BROUGHAM, of the motives of the Tories in proposing
an adjournment of the Irish Municipal Reform Bill, will
give a powerful impetus to the popular determination 'on
the subject.

Another dead-set was made at Ministers last night in
the House of Commons, on the subject of the Church of
Scotland, which Mr. HORSMAN, in reply to some jesuitical
remarks by Sir R. PEEL, exposed in a most caustic and
triumphant manner. The discussion occupied nearly the
whole night, and was characterised, on the part of the Op-
position, by a virulent display of factious feeling. We shall
enter more at large into the debate on Monday.

The spirit with which the people of Westminster hive
come forward to assert their rights, anti resent the repeated
insults heaped upon them, is only what might have been
expected of men proud of their independence, and sincerely
attached to those principles of
,Reform for which Sir F.
BURDETT has been so often returned to Parliament. Per-
hapi in the whole history of apostacy, there is not 'one in-
stance in which there has been displayed so much tergiver-
sation, hypocrisy, and wanton insult. At the lust election
many of the voters had misgivings about the Hon. Baro-
net's political opinions, and though his general professions
on the hustings did not remove their doubts, they
could not forget the stand be had made almost alone
against the corruption of the' borough-mongers, and the
abuses of an unreformed House of Commons, and trusting to
his well established character, and also to his honour as a
gentleman, they resolved to give him a fair trial. How
has he come out of the trial ? No sooner had the new
Parliament met than their suspicions became confirmed by
his manifest Nish-to support a Tory Government. A num-
ber of his constituents in consequence requested an inter-
view, and after much evasion and shuffling on his part, they
Were furred to agree to a sort of compromise and allow
him to remain neutral. Since that period he has entirely
neglected their interests. During the agitation of many
questions of vital importance for the last two years, while a
Liberal Government was making every exertion to Carry. Out
the principles of the Reform Bill—to improve our Muni-
cipal Institutions, and redresit he grievances of the oppressed
Irish nation, he kept entirely aloof—seldom entered the
Rouse, and we believe never voted at all. His consti-
tuents, wearied out by conduct so unworthy and so incon-
sistent with his professions, at last call on him to give
up the trust which he had betrayed, and when at last
driven to a corner, he turns round and avows his apostacy,
scoffs at " the fashionable slang" of that class of electors
by whom he had all along been
,returned, leaves his place
of retreat to which he had been confined by " severe ill-
ness," and arrives in Westminster accompanied, as if 'in
derision of his constituents, by the man who in 1832 op-
posed day after day the extension of the elective franchiso,
and who has ever been the bitterest enemy of Reform.
The electors of Westminster feel the insult, and from the
exertions making in every quarter, little doubt. remains that
he will never have another -opportunity of repeating it.

As Saint ANDREW AGNENV'S ridiculously fanatical zeal

'or the better observance of the Sabbath, is no longer con-
tined to the concoction of Bilis to serve the purposes of
Cerntuittee-room waste paper, Scotland cannot do a wiser
thing than ,adopt some public measure for the removal of
the devout Baronet from the House of Commons. Had
he devoted his Parliamentary labours to speeches in support
of Notices of Motions for the introduction of Bills for the
prevention of births—marriages—deaths—diseases—hunger
—cold—thirst—the stoppage of the diurnal motion of the
earth—the arresting the progress of the celestial bodies—
the suspension of the tides and the growth of vegetation—
the employment of fifty cooks to allow cne baker to attend
Divine worship—and hundreds of other vagaries of the
same kind, we would have laughed at, and borne with him :
but when he presu nes, as he did last night, to waste the
time of the House of Cbmmons with discussions on fanatical
amendments on Bills for the regulation of the Post-office,
it is high time to call upon his constituents and the country
to compel his acceptance of the Chiltern Hundreds. Had
the absurd amendment which he proposed last night, as one
of the clauses of the Post-office Management Bill, been
adopted, a most serious injury would have been inflicted on
the commercial relations of this country. In the first
place it would have destroyed the country circulation of all
Journals published in London on Saturday and Sunday—
thus entailing ruin upon the weekly, and material injury
upon the daily Press. The non-delivery of all letters on
Sunday would be to the merchant not a delay of one day
but of two ; and thus the English mercantile week would
consist of only five days. As the clause included petitions,
with letters, the criminal condemned on Saturday to die on
Monday, could not even address the Crown for a mitiga-
tion of punishment ; but be driven to seek consolation
in the fact that his death was necessary to the sancti-
fication of the Sabbath. f But it is unnecessary to dwell
longer upon a subject so little liable to misconception. The
good sense of the House quickly dispelled the purblind
sophistries of the canting Baronet. His Mucklewrath de-
nunciations produced no more effect upon the supporters
of the Post-office Management Bills, than did the raving
of his prototypes, the Pharisees, against the non-observance
of the Sabbath by the Lord of the Sabbath. Nevertlacles7,
as cant finds many supporters in the House of Commons ;
and as the slang of the conventicle is always infectious where
men have a political interest in donning the mask of religion,
we seriously advise the people of Scotland to choose some
other representative in the room of Saint AGNEW. If they
propose the getting up of a public subscription for that
purpose, they may rely upon the best support of the English
people. Indeed, we think no better plan of getting rid of
him could be adopted, should he refuse to confer upon his
country the boon of a voluntary resignation. Even Mr.
TREVOR declines to support any longer the ridiculous
amendments of Sir ANDetw AGNEW. It would be as wise
and statesmanlike to propose bringing all ships to anchor
on a Sunday, as to attempt a further restriction of the
already paralyzed action of the Post Office.

The French Papers of Thursday have been received,
with letters from Madrid of the 26th, and from San Sebas-
tian of the 28th, ult. Thursday being the Feast of the
Ascension' was a holiday in France ; consequently we have
no domestic news of any interest from Paris. The Three
per Cents. closed at ToaToNt's at 79f. sc.
The Christinos commenced operations on the 28th, but
the details have not reached us. ESPARTERO was expected
to arrive at San Sebastian on the 29th, to head the expedi-
tion in person, which was to consist of 30,000 men, all
well armed, and in, a high state of discipline. As the
town would not afford lodging for so large a three, General
SEOANE had proceeded to Bayonne to purchase 1,000 tents
for the Army to be pitched in the open space round San
Sebastian.

The Cortes were engaged with discussions on the Con-

stitution on the 25th ult. Sixty-five articles hove 1)°1
adopted. The accounts from the Province3•Acre favdura'"

The German Papers received this morning contain'
political news of any kind.

CARLOW ELECTION COMMITTCa'

(THIS DAY.)

The Committece met to-dity at eleven o'clock.
411'
Mr. THESSIG Kit having yesterday abandoned any further gill'
tiny, proceeded this morning to call evidence in support of the.
gations contained in the petition against the High Sheriff anttl! t.
assessor, in order that the Committee might be able to repor.t 19:0
the petition was not frivolous or vexatious, and thereby avoid u
payment of those enormous costs which fall upon parties who on
necessarily brim,' such petitions before the House. '
case for Mfr •
Mr. EdmundHayeg, a barrister who conducted the
Bunbury, the defeated' candidate, was then called in and exact
01*
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in chief by Mr. Austin, and •deposed to certain improprieties on ":
part of some of the Sheriffs Deputies ; but he admitted that ai
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as they were made known they were corrected and not repeated

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DATi)
TIVELVI o'---
ri O'CK'
The arrivals this morning are the French and Hamburgh
and Ship-letters from Calcutta and Bombay,
Some anxiety still prevails in the city in respect to the Asher
rican and East India commercial affairs, and we i.:ear that :Icr'tior
American firm applied yesterday to the Bank for .aee dieg'
the 1° t
which was granted. It is also stated that some of
„Ives
firms connected with the India trade were exerting there
withdraw their acceptances from circulation. The Foreik,
changes yesterday were heavy, and most. of them at decline: al
The debates in both Houses last night occupy the attean?l
the public in the city, particularly that in the House. of Lords 04
Jan. 5, old dat" me.
the Irish Municipal Bill, which met with a discomfiture, and
postponed till the 9th June by a majority of 77.
THE FUNDS. bedConsols, which closed yesterday at 904 for the Account, one'
this morning at the same. Exchequer B3ls, 32 ; India nosh'
Bank Stock, 2041 • India Stock, 253/.
In the Foreign ?Market, Spanish Active closed at 2'24 e= in
Coupons opened the same ; Passive, 5.7, ; Portuguese, 48 T
;
per Cents., 301; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 53 - „tt E
The fact of Ministers having been in the minority last o'tod
the House of Lords, has not as yet had any effect on the Fungi„,HALF-PAST 01" rill,
Official accounts have been received this morning from the , t
of Spain to the 30th ult., stating that the force to be assereb: t
St. Sebastian will amount to thirty thousand men, which reGe •
be commanded by General Espartero in person, aided b 3 t
t.o
neral Evans, Gurrea, and Escalara. The operations werei
be commenced as soon as the last reinforcements had land d •
The line of the Ebro was entirely secured by Gener th
barren's forces. The provisioning and every necessary for
whole army was secured to the end of May, and would be eaten
within a few days to the end of June, the Government haying rioi,
vided the Spanish Consul at Bayonne with the necessary funds'
instructions. „ et;
Consols have been during the morning at 90i- for the ACCOI,,;
at present the same also for Money. Exchequer Bills. ii"2s`.A•
India Bonds, 32 30; Bank Stock, 2041; India Stock, 253,
In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active, which were 'fli,e,
morning 22/71 23, are at present 221 ex div. ; Coupons--Pa33W;
53 j ; Deferred, 83 a ; Portuguese, 47a Three per Cents e 4 ;
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 33i 1; Mexican, •-4`7r?;
Spanish Coupons, 48 50 ; American New Paper, Bank, 95 ,2,,,e
Morris Canal, 981 99. Cg
O'CLO
Consols for the Account, 904 /.
THE FUNDS.—CLOSING PRICES..•
KRITINII FUNDS.'-
Bank Stock 201% Omni.tra
3 per Cent. fled. lndia Stock *****
3 per Cent. C0n5..... ..... 90Y, Ditto Pond.
3>g per Cent.
t-er Cent. Re.,l q".'! Ditto Old Annuities .. ........
New :1;i per Cent. 95?4, Ditto New Ar.nintics. ........ 1:1
Ps i
her Cent. Assented

Dissented
Long Annuities expire
Jaa IWO l4 9-16
Oct 1850 14%
Jan. 1/360
FOUEIG

Ditto 5004 .......
Ditto 5001... ....... •""
flank Stock for Opg. ........
India Stock for Act. ••••"'
Clusols for Act.
FUNDS.
' ,co,,a
P.:rtugnesc Bonds, per .
...
Ditto, Now Ditto

Austrian, :ipr.r cent
5 per cent

Brait B.onds

Prussian.
_5 per cent .....••••

--- - - .
ten es Ayres, ti per cant
...,.
Gillian, 6 per cent -.L. Ditto, Metallic .................. ~
.- .....,
Colombian 6 per cent....
Ditto' 1a 34
~' 1
Tan itih ,3. per. tient — French, 5 pet cent .
~c.
Gieek.Botids, 1325. , t ...., 1
cr cent. Exchange
-. ri
Mexican, S per cent. — Ist...iich, 3 per cent ..... •o'ii,
Ditto, 6 percent., 1825 ....... 1. Itch, 21-per cent........ -••• Jfi'''
1' crovian„ 1823, 6 per mit.... _ Ditto, 5 per cent •••"' :r'
SklAct ES
Birmingham and Derby Railway 5 ,
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway - ,-
Great Western Railway
London and Brighton Railway (Rennie's)
Lotid•in and Birmingham Itaitway
- London and Greenwich Railway .. lO4
Manchester South Union Railway ,„ 4,',,, ,
No other variations in the Priees.of Shares since our One 'lc

Mn. LOVER'S NEW WORK " RORY O'lNlCitt•
—The hero of this new romance is a genuine, outspoken,
"'d
mourous, and honest Irishman, fond of his joke, a patteroor'
courage. and generosity, and a felicitious illustration of the is
tional virtues of hospitality and fidelity. The whole story
admirably told ; and the dialogue is full of Irish wit
repartee. Some of the scenes are extremely striking ibia
effective. The return of Rory, and the scene in the
over the dead body of Shan Dhu, is a fine conception, loll:A
the pathos is at once intense and simple. The escape Jr'-,t,
the ruin in the valley of the Folly--the meeting of the srngto
glers and conspirators in the cellar—Rory's adventure at trp
house of the Colonel of the " Rcg'lars,' are also in their 011,
ferent ways, excellent. The volumes are embellished 1,',110
some spirited etchings, and national lyrics, exhibitingthenn;
in one person of the novelist, the artist, the poct,.and 11/
sician.—Atlas.
• PORTENTS AND PRODIGIES IN ANCIENT R°l4.,i
—We extract the following dialogue between two clotl`b,
personages, from a very original and amusing work lately 000
lished, called " Piso and the Prefect ;• or, the Ancitn9o'
their Stilts :"—" A child with three legs has been born in ,oh.
market-place," said the Chief Magistrate of Rome.—" his.
Sancte Jupiter -.. 1" ejaculated the sage.." And a calf
been produced in the suburbs, with its head growing from ti:o
tip of its tail,", added the great man.—" Di Boni
,tot,
gods have mercy on us 1" exclaimed the venerable serf: id
trembling from head to foot.—" But all this is Nothing," tis
the Prefect, .‘ to what I am told has just happened in the p%,.
barra, where a very respectable married woman has
pectedly become the mother of an elephant." An elerdri.
tine birth of this sort is recorded in the Chronicle of Alc5:„0
dria. It is said to have occurred at Rome, during the CC S
of Vespasian.
aci
A LGERINE PROVERB.—If you give a Turk !no
with one hand, you may knock out his eye with the other'
Similasso in Africa, by the German Prince. (.1
W isnom---- .There are some folks who think a O'n4
a dood deal and say but little, and they are • wise folks;
,„
there are others again who blart right out whatever comes ero,
permost, and I guess they arc pretty considerable supers
.darned fools.—The Clockmahcr ; or, Sayitigs and Doings )
Sam Slick.
We are, at length, glad to observe the formal Rod
nouncement of Miss Pardoe's promised bok on TurknY swe
the Turks. We know that the lady can do much, and the
.`
have• learat, in many quarters, that her opportunities in suf.
East were very great. She was, indeed, admitted to the coo
tan's I alace when it was closed against all other Franks, ,
herself and her father. Thus we may anticipate a work (io
ordinary interest. The moment of her visit to Constantililorto
was a singularly happy one : she arrived in the Golden ;0
during the' festival of the Bairam, and witnessed the moll s,
of the Sultan's daughter. She must have much to tell
and we do not fear that she will fail to tell it welt. • ,
MR. GLEIG'S NEW WORK, " THE HUSSAR '
ha;
Here we have the genuine autobiography of a soldier hot
seen much service in various parts of the world—been t
into many curious corners—shared in numerous, odd, ned
aad
teresting adventures, personal and professional—met with,1_11),....
persons, great and little, of whom anecdotes are acceptanLody •
and who, in short has just such a story to tell as ever! elige, •
has a taste for reading. We refer the reader to his narrl.oci
and to the many amusing and romantic adventures, ranre'in.....,
military, personal and historical, which the volumes conte,.,ect
sure that he will rise from the perusal of them with eani"'
feelings of gratification. of
WYRE HARBOUR.—We have before us a view
har.
the projected town of Fleetwood at the entrance of this nt
bour, which in point of taste and elegance of arrangelec,. oleo
would be difficult to surpass. We are glad to find tha Lwio
measures proposed for deepening the mouth of the WYreward
shortly be in active operation, and we confidently loporkferrolo.of
to the establishment of a large shipping port, h
which we shall not fail to watch with some degre7 of
have
anxiety, and communicate the same to our readers. W froal 4i
always entertained a favourable opinion of this project
ficett-
the natural local advantages of the Wyre ; first, in it 'front
liarly desirable position as a harbour of refuge, and nest' vita-
its having en ample depth of water to its very entrance,
out any incumbrance of shoals or sands.—Nautical .31(gla

SECOND-HAND SILVER WATC4'iness
A variety of some dozens may be selected from, price Two .L
each ;
each ; some rather more modern, Two and a Half Guineas
and an assortment quite equal to new, Three Guineas aaeh' CO
whole have been carefully examined, and are warranted. agoiscv.
SAVORY, Watchmaker, 47, Cornhill, London. N•l3'
hand Watches purchased in exchange.

BIRTHS. .1.61118
On the sth inst., at the Duke of Bedford's, Belgrave-glu—
Lady Wriothesley Russell, of a daughter. di 4
On the 4th inst., in Chapel-street Grosvenor-place, the la
Carteret J. Kempson, Esq., of a daughter., k IsSir
On the 4th inst., in Norfolk-street, Mrs. John Frederic
son. of a daughter. .derilei'•
On the 3d inst., in Harley-street, the lady of E. G I('n .
Esq., of a son.
Mg,RRIED.
iro tooth ,
On the 3d inst., at Shering, P. S. F. Martin, Esq. a sircoo,
Essex, to Ann Charlotte, youngest daughter of the late •.'•
Esq., of Durrington House, in the same county. wood, of
On the 29th ult., at St. Mary's, Carlisle, Thomas ~afy,, . '.
of Albion-road, Stoke Newington, London, to Mrs. °'"
Abbey-street, Carlisle. Set •
On th 4th inst., a St. Pal's, Shadwell, Mr. Gore- f 0
worth, ofe Whitechapel-t road, tou Elizabeth, eldest daughter e_...,,...:
Thos. Saunders, of Upper Shadwell

Dirtelli
D I ED.
On the 9th of March, at Nassau, New Providence, e° forG
Esq., his Majesty's Attorney-General for the Bahama
merli Attorney-General for St. Lucia, and a member of
jesty s Privy Council.
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London: Printed and Published by 31VIIDO Yuw.- .6),; cool2i-
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of 3liddlese-x.—Saturday, May 6, 11337.